This is an analysis of the poem A Night-Piece By Millet that begins with:
Wind and sea and cloud and cloud-forsaking
Mirth of moonlight where the storm leaves free... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaB bXbXabaB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111010 101110111 10011101010 111 101110101 10111111000 101111111 1110101010 1111100100 1111101010 111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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 is repeated.
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