This is an analysis of the poem The Midnight Mass that begins with:

An incident of the French Revolution.
The light lay trembling in a silver bar... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbcde fgfbdgfafada hfhfXf ffffaf ififjf db dbhb XiXiji klklal flflbl chchmh fkfkmk fkfkjk mfm fhf hhhhdh ncncde ihihah ododhd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,12,6,6,6,2,4,6,6,6,6,6,6,3,3,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11000011010 01110000101 0101010001 01010010101 1101010111 1111010101 110100 0101110101 01011100010 1101011101 1111010111 1101011101 11010010 1101010101 1100110111 0101010101 1011110110 1111111101 010101 1101010101 0111110101 1101011101 1101011101 1111011100 110001 11011010101 111110101 111101011 11011010001 01011101010 110111 1001110101 11010110001 11001010011 1111010101 1101111111 110001 1111010101 0111010101 01010010101 11110101001 1101011101 111101 0111110101 0101110011 0101010111 0111010101 1111010101 010101 0111000101 11110101001 01010010101 010101101 1011111101 111101 1011110001 1101010111 0101010001 1111010101 11011100101 0100101 0101110111 01001010001 1101110101 11010101001 1101010101 110111 1001010101 01001110111 1111010111 1101110111 1111000101 111101 0101010101 1101010101 0111110111 0111110001 1101011101 111101 1101011101 1111010101 1011110101 011110101 1111110111 010001 1101010111 1101010101 01010100101 1111001101 1101111101 010101 11010101101 011010001 0101110101 0111011101 1101010001 001100 0111011101 1111010100 1001001101 11110100001 1011010101 110101 0111110101 1111100101 1101110101 1101011101 0111011101 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 109
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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, she, of, with are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, now are repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Midnight Mass;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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