This is an analysis of the poem The Aurora On The Clyde that begins with:

AH me, how heavily the night comes down,
Heavily, heavily: ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccddaebffbde gXddddg gbhhdbg ibggdXi jbkkdbj gXddbdg aXkkddX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,7,7,7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1111000111 100100 1011011101 01001110111 1101111001 110011 1101110101 11110101010 100100 01001111111 100111101101 1101010100 011101 11011111010 11010110111 100100 1111010111 1101110101 0111010101 011111 1101100111 1110110101 100100 1101111101 100110001001 1101100111 010100 1111011111 1110010111 100100 11011111010 111100101010 1001110111 011000 1111010101 1101010101 10001000 11101000101 10010010101 1011000101 1001000 10111000101 1111010111 100100 1111110001 0011000101 1011010100 110101 0101010101 1101011111 100100 1101010111 1011011111 1111011111 110111 1011111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 320
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 57
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; heavily, all are repeated.

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