This is an analysis of the poem All Soul’s Eve that begins with:

I cried all night to you,
I called till day was here;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdaeXfgXgXbgbdacafcec hbebfhchdcdccbcb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101 111111 011111 10111 111111 110111 110111 111111 110101 110101 110101 1111001 111101 111101 011101 110111 010111 010111 100011 111111 110111 011001 111101 111001 111111 011111 111101 111111 101101 101101 111111 111101 110111 1001101 011101 010101 010101 011111 100011 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 523
  • Average number of words per stanza: 108
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the are repeated.

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  • summary of All Soul’s Eve;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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