This is an analysis of the poem An Image From A Past Life that begins with:

He. Never until this night have I been stirred.
The elaborate starlight throws a reflection... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcccab dbeeedb fdeeefd ghiXigh ahjjjah akaaaak
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001011101 001011110010 1011 110101 11011111 01010100111 100101010 111001110101 101101110 1111 1100101 111111101 01110101011 0111010 11111110111 111100011 1011 111101 1011010101 0101000101 11001011 10110010111 111101010 0101 11001000 10010101 0101010001 0101000010 11111110001 1111110 0100 110111 11011101 10011101101 110001110 11111010101 101101011 1101 111101 10110101 1111111101 001001111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 237
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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