This is an analysis of the poem After A Long Insomniac Night that begins with:

I walked down to the sea in the early morning
after a long insomniac night....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ab cddb beae XecXe Xdd X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,4,5,3,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111001001010 100101011 11100101101 11101 1101011 11010011 110010100100 11011 110101110 00110101 11101011 101010 101 1101010110 110010110101 1110010 0111111 1111010010001 1110000000101001110110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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.

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