This is an analysis of the poem A Message that begins with:
It was about the midnight hour,
I heard the wind go by:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efefgcgc hbhbibib
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101110 110111 111011010 110111 11110101 111101 010100001 1111 11010111 111101 11010111 110101 11111111 111111 10010111 10101 11111111 111111 01110111 111101 11111011 101111 11111111 0111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; you, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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