This is an analysis of the poem Silent, Silent Night that begins with:
Silent, silent night,
Quench the holy light... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa bbb aaaXbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101 10101 01101 10101 10101 11101 11101 1001 10101 11101 10101 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 63
- Average number of words per stanza: 11
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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