This is an analysis of the poem All's Well that begins with:
Watchman, watchman, what of the night,
What of the night to tell?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABabbXbcddDB ABabececddDB ABXbfafaddDB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101001 100101 0101111001 10111001 1010001 100 1010101 110 1010001 110111 001001 11 10101001 100101 011110111 1010111 1010101 110 1111101 110 1010111 110111 001001 11 10101001 100101 1110101110 10101001 1011101 111 1011111 111 0011101 1110001 001001 11
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 325
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words but, and are repeated.
The author used the same word watchman at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word well at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of All's Well;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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