This is an analysis of the poem Domination Of Black that begins with:
At night, by the fire,
The colors of the bushes...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbcBDXXE bbDdcXdeXbDbaeaXeX XdBDcXdE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,18,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010 0100010 100101 01001 1001 10101 10001 11010001010 110 11010010011 010011 010101 10001 00111 111001 11110010010 1001 1101011 100101011 1010101 10001 10101 10010 101010011 100110 11010 10010011 1100101010 10010 11101010 10101 10001 111011 1101010001010 1101 11010010011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 335
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; turning, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word turning is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines wind is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase came connects the lines.
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