This is an analysis of the poem New Year's Night, 1916 that begins with:
The Earth moans in her sleep
Like an old mother...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaBca deffdddddcX aBgfdegXcdXdcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,11,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011001 11110 1111001 11100001 11100 0110 1011110100 010110001 110010010001 101110 10000110 0010011 101001100 111011 1000001011 01001000 0100110 1111001 100111 011001001 101011101 10101010 111011 1100010010 1110111 0110010 11101100100 11001 110010011 111001000
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 312
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word innocency at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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