This is an analysis of the poem The Vesper Hour that begins with:

Soft and holy Vesper Hour—
Precursor of the night—...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcccX dedefefe bbbbghgh fgfgbibi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101010 010001 11111010 010101 1011101 0101001 100101010 011000 11001111 010101 10010101 101101 10110101 010111 10011101 011101 11110111 110111 11011101 000101 11101111 1100101 11111101 110011 001100101 011101 11010111 010111 10110111 1100111 11010111 011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, and are repeated.

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  • summary of The Vesper Hour;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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