This is an analysis of the poem St. Andrew's Eve that begins with:
The last night of November
All dreaming as I lay,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb cdXd Xefe agfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110010 110111 1101010 010111 010010110 011111 1010110 101011 1111010 10101001 0101111 1010101 11001110 1010111 1101111 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.
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