This is an analysis of the poem The Watch At Midnight that begins with:
Dead stars, beneath the midnight's granite cope
and round your dungeon-gulf that blindly grope ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccccddXdXe ddXccfgghgghccfiifbbcjjcddkXdk ddddccjjggcckk eljmnmeXdmfoo cbXbigigdgdgbibicgcg cckkdd cgcgkccckcdXdcbbcaakddkppqbbeqekkd dkiillddccccrXppqcqcqqkkgggsseebb nniikkkkaaggttkkhhccddggkkjjggqqd dbXlljjddccccldldcccccjccctjtigic aagciiififfnfn
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,30,14,13,20,6,34,33,33,33,14,32,33,33,33,34,26,34,22,28,27,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
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- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1068
- Average number of words per stanza: 186
- Amount of lines: 545
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, there, all, for, not, with, i, his, he, that, my, her, their, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, no, eternally, rest, of, or, the are repeated.
The author used the same words the, o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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