This is an analysis of the poem The Night that begins with:
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Watchman, what of the night?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaaaa bbcc ddeeaaaa ccdd Xfgg hhbb Eeffccee aaii hhff jjff ccdd EeXd iiee eebb kkaa ggaa cckk ffdd aall ddff ccbb eegX ffaa ccll mmaa nnaa bbgg Xdff ccaaffaaXhhaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,8,4,4,4,8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 101001 110101 10110001 01111101 111101 110101 01010101 11010111 010101 111111 11110101 11010101 010101 100101 11110101 11110101 101101 011101 10011001 10010111 111110 010111 11111101 11010101 111101 101111 01111101 11111101 110101 011101 01111111 11010001 100111 1011001 10010101 11010111 100101 110101 11011101 01100001 111101 101111 111100101 11010111 100101 110101 01001101 01010001 110101 010101 10111101 11010101 110101 100101 11111100 11010001 010101 000101 11110101 11111101 101101 110001 01010111 01010001 1000101 010111 11101101 11110111 111101 111111 10111101 11111101 010111 111111 01000101 11010101 110101 010101 01010001 100100111 110111 100111 01110111 11010101 111111 110111 11111111 10010101 110101 1011001 11000111 11010101 111101 1001001 11011101 11010110 111101 110011 01000111 10010001 110001 011111 01001101 10010101 110101 010101 01011101 01110111 101111 110111 010001011 01000101 110001 110111 01000101 11110001 010101 111101 01000111 11111001 110101 101111 11010101 11111111 110101 111111 11010101 11110101 110111 111101 11111101 11010111
- Amount of stanzas: 32
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 138
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, he, and, gone, we, changed, to, not are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, last are repeated.
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- summary of The Night;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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