This is an analysis of the poem Night Movement-New York that begins with:

IN the night, when the sea-winds take the city in their arms,
And cool the loud streets that kept their dust noon and afternoon;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbbXaXXaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 00110111010011 11011111111101 001101110010010 01111011110010 001101110100111 10101010111110 0010101101011 00111101011010 1010110111011 0010111010011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 599
  • Average number of words per stanza: 120
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, city, their, night, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines city is repeated).

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