This is an analysis of the poem White Night that begins with:
I keep thinking of times that are long past,
Of a house in the Petersburg Quarter....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb deXf eeXc ffXd cXed aXaX Xded eXdX dXbe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110011111 0010010010 11100100110 0011110010 1011110010 1110111010 1110110011 1010110010 01111101100 1011010010 11111101101 1010010011 10100100100 00101100100 10100101000 10101010100 01110100100 1011110100 11111100100 01100010010 10100100110 1010011010 1100001001 001001000100 0111011100 1010110110 0110110010 1010111000 00100100100 0010010110 10100101101 1010110110 1011110110 1111010110 0111110010 1110110010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, on are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word on is repeated.
The author used the same word to at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase on connects the lines.
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