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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