This is an analysis of the poem A Nocturnal Reverie that begins with:
In such a Night, when every louder Wind
Is to its distant Cavern safe confin'd;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbccddbbXeccddXbffggeehheeggaXeeiieejjaaddddaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 50,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01011100101 0001010101 11010101011 11010011011 1011110101 11001010101 0101110111 11010101001 1011000101 01011100111 1101110101 1111010101 10101010100 1101010101 1101010111 1101010101 1101110111 110010111001 1100101010011 0011101101 1101010101 1101100101 1101110111 1101010101 1101110001 1101010001 1101110101 1101010101 1011110101 11010110101 1101110111 1111000111 11001110111 1101011001 1101010101 1001010101 1111010101 1101110111 1001100101 1111011001 1101010101 1011110001 1011001001 1001000101 10101010101 1011001110101 0101110101 1101110101 1111110101 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2268
- Average number of words per stanza: 374
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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