This is an analysis of the poem Night that begins with:
The ebb slips from the rock, the sunken
Tide-rocks lift streaming shoulders...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcccad XeXfbebXcegbh ecbiXebajXbXaecXejbgdajg gbfdXii dggghkdXkXbedhbhXXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,13,24,7,19,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011001010 1111010 1001011 10001011 11011 100100110 1011 1001101001100 1011100101010 01010011010011 11001001101100010 1011010111011 1010010101110000 1101011111111 10101011101110 00110110101100 01001110110110 11011011010100100 10010101101110 010 1101010 1001010 1011110 00111001 111011 1100001010 01011 110001111001010 01000100101100 100 010010001001001 01010010101010 01101010101110 0110101110010110 1010100101010111 11011100010011 10 001101000101100110 100 100111101011 10 10011110101110 001001011110110 1000100 011001 1001010 101110 0101101 10011 001010110101 01011 11000111011110 100101001010110 10011111111110 010101001011110 110100111101101 1100101001000101000 110010101010110 01100100001101 01010101001100100 100100101001001 1111101110010110 100110101011010110 1111 101100010010001 1001001100 111111010 01001010111000 111001101101100 110110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 633
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; over, shining, of, her, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Night;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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