This is an analysis of the poem To The Evening Star that begins with:

Thou fair-haired angel of the evening,
Now, whilst the sun rests on the mountains, light... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabcXXdbdbcaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 111100010 1101110101 1110111001 1111011101 1111111100 110001101101 11001011011 0101111111 01110011001 1101010111 1101101101 1010110110 0100111100 1101010001100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 641
  • Average number of words per stanza: 117
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; on is repeated.

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