This is an analysis of the poem The Night Was Wide, And Furnished Scant that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aXXX XXXX XaXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 01111101 0101010 110101010 11100010 010101010 110101 010100101 11000100 1101100 010101 11010111 1001010 0101010 11000100 010101010 1101010 010001010 1100001 1001010000 01001110
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; to 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.

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  • summary of The Night Was Wide, And Furnished Scant;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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