This is an analysis of the poem Night And Morning that begins with:
Was it a lie that they told me,
Was it a pitiless hoax?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdX befebX gcdcgX hbcbiX XdgdgX ihXhgg cfaXdd XgXggg XggghX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011111 1001001 011111010 1001011 1011110111 11111001 1110110010 11001101 1110010010 11001011 1010100101 111001011 10011010 01101001 1010010011 101101001 10101101001 1110101 11010110 01101011 110110110 1111001 1010101101 11101011 001111101 11111001 1111011001 1110101 0101011001 11010101 11111010 1011011 111011110 0010101 1111111101 110111 11110010 11111001 10011011 100111 1111100111 10100111 1011110110 0111001 01011010 11110111 1011101001 10111001 11101110 111011 1111010 100101 10111001001 101111100
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, of, and, for, that, i, my, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words was, that, utter, and are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Night And Morning;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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