This is an analysis of the poem Nightmare: A Tale For An Autumn Evening that begins with:
After a Print by George Cruikshank
It was a gusty night,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcddcedfbXgbagdXbhcXiXgjiibccckXlblmblnXmXhgmoohXgfdXgmooiXbgdbdfmhbXooXnodlbmXXbmogdmmlbbdeopoXccdabboechnngdjdqmrXjemcmdXmrmXbmmodXpgdibffbegXgghkfhgXrkXqXohmdco
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,163,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111101 010101 00110110 10110 10100101 10110 10101001 101010010 101010100010 101011110001 1011101010 11101011 0110101 0010110101010011 10101011111011 0110110010 1100011111 01010111010101 1110101011111010 0110110110 0111001011010 1101111010111 01001 1101111101 0110100111 10111111011 01110010010011 10111100 1010110 110110 110110110 011 110101011010111111 1011001001111 1011011 1101011000011 1101011 10101110101 101010111010 1101011111010 1101101110 1001 1110100 10111010 100110101 11010011 11000111 1101010101110101 111101010001001010 10110111101010 011 0100011110 010010111010 1111101010 01111 111111010010 111 101001 01011110101 00111 10101010 11111 0101111010 00110001 101001010 101100 110110 1010110111010 11101011 101010 111010101 1101111001 110111 11010010 1111100010111010 110110011001 1011101010 1101100101 0101010110 001110 1101011111111 1001101 1101011001 1010001100101 0111 1101010010 000101000111001 10101 11010011010 1001111001010111 11 01110101011 11110100 11010010 1111 10111 1111 1110 1111010 11001 0100010011 010101001 101110111 11010101 10111 1010 1001011110010 1110110010 111011010 011010101111 010101 10101011 11101 01110001 1111 10110111 1010100 00111101 01001101111101 1011111 00101000111010 10100110101 0101010101110 101101110110100 10110101001001001 11010001 110110 11010110001010 1011101010101 01110 01101 11 10111 110 0101010101 01101 00101010 11100101 1111 001011110 10110 1011011 100010100011001 10110001 100111111010 01011 01101 0110010 01110101 101110 110010 1010101 10100 1101 001 10100 1100010101 1010110011 101010 111101 1011101001010 111100 10101101010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2010
- Average number of words per stanza: 375
- Amount of lines: 163
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; spruggins, mr, him, his, and, in, down, it, s, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words mr, and, the, he, it, on are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines bright is repeated).
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