This is an analysis of the poem Midnight Lamentation that begins with:
When you and I go down
Breathless and cold,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcdcd ecfcadad abebecec aeXeghgh ibcbjkjk Xfefgigi lblbgbbb cdbddmcm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 1011 110111 0101 110110 1111 1011 1011 110101 1111 101101 11 111101 1111 011101 1111 111101 0111 110101 0111 111111 0111 010101 1101 111111 1111 0111100 1111 111101 1101 111101 0111 110100 1111 110001 0111 111101 1001 111111 1011 111100 1011 100011 101 111001 11010 110101 11010 01101 1111 110101 0111 110101 100101 110111 1111 110101 1111 110101 1001 111111 1101 1001101 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
- 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; same, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word you at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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