This is an analysis of the poem Nocturne that begins with:

I'm standin' at the corner uv the Lane
The Land called Spadgers - waiting fer 'is jills.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: AXabcc Xbdbee fcfcXc gdgdhh cicijj jgjXbb cdcXcc kXkXjX cXcahh gfgXff AXabhh kXkXXg dadadd kikidX gdgdXk lalakX mhmhee deXXXX XXXcgg icicjX iXijdX ekeXaX XeXeXk nhnhiX chcXee hchciX adadaX cXcXjX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101010101 0111010111 0111010101 1101011111 0101011111 1101010101 0101011111 1111100101 11100110101 0111010011 11010100101 1011011101 0111010101 0111001101 0111110111 1101011101 1101110010 1111010101 1011010011 0101110101 11101010101 1111011101 1111111101 1101010101 1111110111 0101111101 0101010101 11010011101 1110111111 1101001111 101011111 1010001111 1100110101 011101100 1111110111 1101010111 1111010101 1011010001 0111011101 1111010111 1101011111 1011011001 1101011101 1101011101 1101011111 11001000101 1111011111 1101011111 10111100101 1001011001 1101110111 1111011101 0101110111 1111010001 1101010111 1111110101 1111110001 1111010111 1011110101 1111110101 0101010101 1001110111 0101110101 11011101001 1111100101 1101011001 1111110111 1111110111 1101010101 10110111010 1101110111 1101111111 1111110111 1011011101 0101011101 1111011101 11001110111 1111100101 11011011101 0101010101 1111010111 1111110111 11011110101 1101010011 0111111111 1111011111 1111011111 1101110101 1001011101 1111010111 11110111101 11011010111 0101111101 1101111101 1111010011 0101011111 1111011111 0100010101 1111011101 1111011111 1001110101 0011111101 1110011110 1001110011 1101011100 1111110101 1101011110 1111110101 1111111111 11011111101 1110111111 11111001101 1101010100 1111011101 1101010101 1111111101 1111110101 1010000101 1101111101 11111010010 1101010101 10110111100 1101010111 11001010101 1101010111 1011101111 11111001101 1111011101 1110111110 01011111001 1111010101 1111111101 1101111100 1101110101 1011111101 0101010111 1101110101 1101110101 0101010011 1011111111 1101011101 1011010111 0100110101 10111000010 1101011001 1011111001 1001111110 1101111111 1110010111 1111010111 1110110111 0111011111 0111011111 0101011111 10101011111 10010001001 1101110101 1111110111 1101000111 1101110001 11011001110 1111110101 1111010111 0111010101 1001000101 1001110111 1101110101 1111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 28
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 168
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, 'im, to, an', me, 'is, ', friend, 'e, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, to, an', when, me, 'wot are repeated.

    The author used the same words i, then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Nocturne;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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