This is an analysis of the poem After Drafting that begins with:
NIGHT has fallen, night and darkness,
Night with star and planet splendid;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbbcdcefgfadXdXXeddegedgbgbcfcXhgh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101110 10111010 10111010 10101010 11101011 10111110 11101110 10111010 1111 1010 10101010 00111010 10111010 10111010 10101010 10101010 10101111 10101100 10101011 10101010 1110 1010 10101010 00111010 11111110 11111010 10111010 10101010 11101011 10111110 10001010 10101010 1110 1110 11101010 00101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1111
- Average number of words per stanza: 197
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; night, and, how are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word night is repeated.
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