This is an analysis of the poem To Mrs. Goodchild that begins with:
The night-wind's shriek is pitiless and hollow,
The boding bat flits by on sullen wing,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabb cdcdaa ececff XghgiX XceXei XXdXii ffffdd Xifijj hdhdXf Xkgkii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110100110 0101111101 11110011110 11010111101 10111101001 100111010101 1011010001 0101001111 1111000101 0101000101 11010100110 1101011101010 0111110111 0101011101 0110110001 1001110101 01001010101 111111010101 11010111110 1111001101 11110111110 1101010101 11110001010 1111111111100 10100110010 11010100010 01010011011 11110101101 1011010101 101110010100 110100010110 1111000111 11111101010 1011010110 110011110100 11000101010100 01110111110 11000100010 10110101010 11010100010 0100010101 1101011101001 1001110101 10110101010 1101011101 11000101010 01000101010 1100010111010 11100101010 1011010101 111101110010 11010000111 11110101100 10111111010100 11111011110 1011110111 11111111110 1011010001 010011101010 1001111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i, and, that are repeated.
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