This is an analysis of the poem The Drenching Night Drags On that begins with:
The drenching night drags on: no sleep or snore,
no stock, no wealth of sheep, no horned cows....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcX deXX eecX ccXXXabde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101111111 111101111 0110111110011 111110111011 011001001001011 011101111011 011111011100 11011110110 1101111101 010001010101 1101011001010 0010011111111 111101111010 111010011101 010010111010 1101100101110 1111101101 01011110111 0110101010001 1111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no, carthy, my, your are repeated.
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