This is an analysis of the poem Night Without Sleep that begins with:

The world's as the world is; the nations rearm and prepare to
change; the age of tyrants returns;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdef gdbXghc ifbgbfeXgc XXfXcigXhai
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,10,11,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011010010111010 10101001 01010010111001010110 10110010 01010110010101010 110111011 1111111011011 001001 111101 01000110001001010 001110010000101 100110101110100 10010010010110 1001010110 1111111 0110111 00100101011101010 101101 010101111110100101 11001101011011 101001010101 0011101011101010 11110110 1011110 10101 1101001011010 1101100010110 1111011111011 101010100110 110100101101001 10 001100 1101011010111 0010000110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 327
  • Average number of words per stanza: 58
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.

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  • summary of Night Without Sleep;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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