This is an analysis of the poem Meditation On A Cold, Dark, And Rainy Night that begins with:
Sweet on the house top falls the gentle shower,
When jet black darkness crowns the silent hour, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbddeeXfffddggddff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11011101010 11110101010 1101010101 1111010101 11010010101 1101010101 1101000101 0101110101 1101110101 1101010101 1100010101 1101010101 1101011101 1101010001 1111011111 1111010101 1001011101 0101010101 0100010101 1101110101 0101011101 1001011101 1101011111 1101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1071
- Average number of words per stanza: 185
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, my, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, still are repeated.
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