This is an analysis of the poem Far Rockaway Night Till Morning that begins with:
WHAT can we say of the night?
The fog night, the moon night, the fog moon night last night?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bXcXXbXXX cc baXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,9,2,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001 011011011111 11100101 1110011110 1110111 00100101 10101110 01011010 101 101 101 111011111 1110111111111 100111 1110010 1001110 110101011 10011101101 1111101011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 653
- Average number of words per stanza: 133
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; night, of, hoi, loa are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there, hoi, who are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines night, loa, have are repeated).
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