This is an analysis of the poem Out Of The Depths: Written After The Reformation Of A Brilliant And Talented Man that begins with:

Out of the midnight, rayless and cheerless,
Into the morning's golden light;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabaXbbX aXXacbcb XbXbbbXb bdcdXbbb cbXbbbXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001110110 00010101 1001001110 00010111 1001111010 100111101 11001101010 111110110 1001011010 1001001100 0101001011 110100101 10010010011 100111101 110111010 111110101 1101101110 010111101 1101001100 11001100111 1101001010 11010101 111110110 110101101 1001101010 10010111 11101001010 0100110101 1001011110 100111101 11101001110 1111110101 1001101110 1001101011 111010111110 1011101101 11010110010 1101001111 11111010110 110110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 336
  • Average number of words per stanza: 65
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, out, that, in, he, like are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words out, lost, down, god are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word again at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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