This is an analysis of the poem On New Year's Eve that begins with:
we make midnight a maquette of the year:
frostlight glinting off snow to solemnize...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX bcbc Xdad eeee bfbf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010001 1010110100 0111000101 1001010100 0011101001 10110100101 0100101011 0110011001 00110101101 1110001001 1011001101 1010110101 0100111001 0100010110 1001011011 011010100010 1111010101 1101010110 1001101101 0110110010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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