This is an analysis of the poem Words In The Night that begins with:
I woke at midnight, and my heart,
My beating heart, said this to me:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaababCBCB deffefXgehheheCBCB abddbdbaabXeeXaa XXfefigijcjgc klkllmllXmccbbkkcXcBCb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,18,16,13,22,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 11011001 11011111 01011111 110101 11011101 100111 1011011 1010101 010100101 11011101 11011101 010001001 001010100 01011111 0101001 11011101 111111 01010111 100010111 01010101 11011001 11010111 11010111 1101001 1011011 1010101 010100101 11011101 1110010101 1001100101 01001010101 1101110111 100111101001 11010101001 01010011 1001010111 011101100101 101101 1001000101 01010011111 1101010001 0101010101 10010101001 110101001101 1110110100 10010101110 1101110100 100010111010 11101010101 01010100001 011101 1101010101 1001010101 1110100101 1100110101 0111000111 1011100101 10111 10111011 10110001 011101101 1100011011 01001010 1010010111 11010101 00101010 11111101010 1100100111 10100101 10010101 110101101 111110101 101101111 11111101 0010101110 11011011 1010101 010100101 111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 582
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, in, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word i at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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