This is an analysis of the poem This Is The Horror That, Night After Night that begins with:
This is the horror that, night after night,
Sits grinning on my pillow -- that I meant... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaaaa ababaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0001011101 1101110111 0101010100 0011010101 0001010001 1111010101 0101010100 0011010101 11101111000 1101010111 10010100001 0101010101 111111001110 1101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 308
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.
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