This is an analysis of the poem A Chilly Night that begins with:
I rose at the dead of night
And went to the lattice alone ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab bcdc ecacec Xcdc XdfX fdgd Xcfc gcacgc fgfg XbXb Xbdbcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,4,4,4,4,6,4,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 11001001 0111101 1010111 1111111 100111 10101001 1111111 1111101 10111 1100111 11111101 110101 1110101 111111011 11111101 1010111 1100001 11010101 011111 1111111 00101011 110101 1011111 1111011 1110111 1100111 111101 1111111 1100111 1111111 010111 1011101 1111001 110101001 1101001 110101 1110111 1100101 111101 0110010 111101 101011100 0011101 0110010 111101 10100101 1110111 10111111 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; ', her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same words i, she, from at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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