This is an analysis of the poem Between The Dusk Of A Summer Night that begins with:

Between the dusk of a summer night
And the dawn of a summer day,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcccccbcbcccc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010100101 10100101 1110110101 1110111 110010101 0010111 1100101011 10101101 10110101 0111001 1110101011 0101111 1011110111 10100111 0110101011 10101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 600
  • Average number of words per stanza: 123
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; and, of are repeated.

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

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