This is an analysis of the poem New Year's Eve that begins with:
Once on the year's last eve in my mind's might
Sitting in dreams, not sad, nor quite elysian,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbaabbabcdbde dffddXXdgceaga
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101110111 10011111100 10011101010 10110110111 1100110111 10110101010 1110000100010 11010110001 1111010100 0101001111 101010010011 10100010101 1001010111 0111010100 1111010101 1100110100 11010111001 1100010111 11010001001 1110010100 0101110100 11010001101 1111010111 110100010111 11011101000 0100111101 1111010111 0100111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 596
- Average number of words per stanza: 103
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; and is repeated.
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