This is an analysis of the poem Meeting that begins with:

It is the dead of night,
The long dead look out towards ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a XbC adbbC dXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,5,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 000101 0111101 011 10010 100111 10101 11111 110011 10010 11111 11101 101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 69
  • Average number of words per stanza: 14
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; dead, they are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines dead is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word them at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Meeting;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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