This is an analysis of the poem On The Doorstep that begins with:
Midnight long is over-past
As we loiter, and the rain falls fast,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaba ccXc ddbdXaaba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 111010111 11101111 10111 0010101 111001101 10101010 10101 1111101 111011111 00101111 11111 1011001 111101111 11111111 111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; we, you, as, i, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word as is repeated.
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