This is an analysis of the poem Nightfall In The City Of Hyderabad that begins with:
SEE how the speckled sky burns like a pigeon's throat,
Jewelled with embers of opal and peridote. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX Xa bb aa cc XX Xb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 110101110101 1000100101100 1011011011000 110100100101 10010110101 110101100101 0100100101100 101100100100 100100110101 101101101101 1011101011000 1001001011000 100101111000 110100100100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 98
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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