This is an analysis of the poem Fallen In The Night! that begins with:

IT dressed itself in green leaves all the summer long,
Was full of chattering starlings, loud with throstles' song. ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddbbee ffbbgg cccchh ffcc bXbX ggggbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,6,6,4,4,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 010101110101 1101001010101 10101010111 10101011111 111010100111 11101011001 1011110101111 10101010101 10111000101 11101010101 10101010101 11101010111 101010100101 10101010101 10111010111 10101110111 10111010101 10101010111 111111101001 101100000101 10101110101 10111001111 10101010101 101001101100 10111010101 00101101011 100101101101 10101010101 101010010101 00101010001 10111000101 10111010001 11111000111 10101011101 11111011111 01100011101 011101110101 100001010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 317
  • Average number of words per stanza: 56
  • Amount of lines: 38
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; its, with, and, in, thou are 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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  • history of its creation;
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