This is an analysis of the poem The Night Is Near Gone that begins with:
HEY! now the day dawis;
The jolly cock crawis; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXA XXbabXXA XXXaXXXA XXXXXXXX XXbaXXXA XXXaXXXA XXXabXXA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110 010110 110010 11010 01011 11011 11001 11011 010100 010110 1010110 11101 010110 011100 01010 11011 110010 010110 110110 111011 1100010 110010 1010100 11011 010100 110110 110100 11010 110110 011110 111110 110110 101010 1000110 011110 11011 01110 110110 110110 11011 010110 111010 010110 11001 110010 110010 111110 11011 111110 110110 110110 111011 110110 110110 010100 11011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 237
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; some is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word gone at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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