This is an analysis of the poem A Florida Night that begins with:
Win' a-blowin' gentle so de san' lay low,
San' a little heavy f'om de rain,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbbXb cdcdXXXd eaeaXdda
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010111 101010101 10101010101 101010101 10101010101 10101000111 10101000101 101010001 10001000101 111010111 11111111111 101010001 10001010101 10101110101 10101011111 101110111 1101010010101 111010111 100011110101 111000101 101010101111 10101011110 100110010111 101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 324
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; de, an' are repeated.
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