This is an analysis of the poem Night Wind: Egypt that begins with:

We woke and watched the stars all jewel-bright.
Sudden I heard, as I lay lover-warm...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abba cddcXaaaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111011101 1011111101 00010010011 0111010001 0101110101 101010110101 1001000101 11010011101 1111110111 11010101011 1111011101 1101111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • 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 the, dead are repeated.

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  • summary of Night Wind: Egypt;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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