This is an analysis of the poem The Constellations that begins with:

O constellations of the early night,
That sparkled brighter as the twilight died, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXcacbbXccddcdeafggaahXiiadXaXabfjbjieadafXcbhgabebaijjaaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 60,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101000101 1101010111 11010100111 11110100101 1101010111 01010001001 11110000111 0001011101 0101110101 0101011101 011100101010 0101011101 1001010101 1000110101 01010000101 10010110101 11010010101 1111100101 0101010101 1111010111 1101110101 1101111101 11010001001 11010011101 110010110101 0101110111 0101010111 0101111101 11000101011 1101010111 1101111101 1111110101 0101110111 1101100101 0101100101 1101000101 1101011101 11000011111 0101011101 1111110101 0101010011 1011110111 01111101001 0111010101 01010101100 1101010101 01001110101 0101111101 0101001101 1101001101 1101010111 0011011101 1101001101 1101100111 1100010011 0011111100 1111010001 1000110011 1001101101 1111111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2741
  • Average number of words per stanza: 493
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • 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; her, all, and, of, with are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word with is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines still is repeated).

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  • summary of The Constellations;
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