This is an analysis of the poem A Wink From Hesper that begins with:
A wink from Hesper, falling
Fast in the wintry sky,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabba Xacca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010 100101 110101 110101 0001 01010011 111111 011101 111111 1001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; good is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word bye at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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