This is an analysis of the poem On Your Midnight Pallet Lying that begins with:
On your midnight pallet lying,
Listen, and undo the door: ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccb dedeffe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11111010 1010101 11101010 0011111 11101010 11111010 10101 00101110 0110111 10101010 0010111 10101010 10101010 10111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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.
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