This is an analysis of the poem A Night-Picture that begins with:
A GROAN from a dim-lit upper room —
A stealthy step on the stairs in the gloom —... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccddbbddddeeffggbbeeeebbbbhheeeebbeeeebbiiddbbjjkkbbkkkkeeiieeeellbbgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 76,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010011101 0101101001 01010101 0010111001 110111101 1100111101 0101111001 0111001001 011100101 11110101 110010111 11010101 010100101 01110101 010010101 110011101 11110101 10110111 11110111 110100111 010110111 0010100101 11011101 11010101 11111111 110110101 01000101001 01001111 11111101 010100101 111110101 100100101 101100111 110100101 11111101 01110101 1100101001 11101101 1100100111 11111101 010110101 1010110101 1011010101 011110101 1100111011 01101101 11011101 1100101011 010010111 11010101 01011111 0100100101 100111001 1110101101 1100101101 11111101 11010111 11010101 11011111 110010101 11011101 11011111 11110001 110100101 10111101 111111011 01111101 11110111 11000101 11111101 1010100101 1010110101 11011101 11010101 110011111 01111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2925
- Average number of words per stanza: 552
- Amount of lines: 76
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; in, he, and, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the, and are repeated.
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- summary of A Night-Picture;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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