This is an analysis of the poem The Unreturning that begins with:
Suddenly night crushed out the day and hurled
Her remnants over cloud-peaks, thunder-walled.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa baXb cXacXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1001110111 0101011101 1101011101 1111010101 1111011111 1111111111 110111110110 1101110111 11001001001 0101011111 011010111111 11110111001 11010011110 110100100111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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