This is an analysis of the poem April Midnight? that begins with:
Side by side through the streets at midnight,
Roaming together,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcB abXb XXXd bdadXbbcB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101111 10010 1011001010 0001001010 1001010010 1110 100110110010 10010010010 1001110110 10100 10011011011 111111110 000001010 00010 1001010111 101001010 101011010 10010 1001001010 0001001010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word good is repeated.
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