This is an analysis of the poem Night In State Street that begins with:

Art thou he?—
The seer and sage, the hero and lover—yea, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: AAbaa cXcdedXd aca acaaff ghhigigdffd ececXcciiiiiXi jjbjajddffkkddii jjdccldlccmmaaammddnnll ccXcaa cicioollcpcqcqcddrr XlXllccllaaccaapdpdccmmdXiirsisiccnl pacacpcXXAAaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,8,3,6,11,14,16,23,6,19,36,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111 01110101101 01011010010 1 101 11001 0101110110 0111001 1010110101011 01001000100 01011100101 110010100101 1001111101 1101 1011110101 1111011 0101011011 11110110101 100111 101111 1101001111 1001010101 1001 1001011001 0101011111 1111010011 1111 11011101111 1101111 1111 010010101010 1110100111010 01011010101 100100111010 010101001100101 111010 0101010101 1000 0101110011 1111111011 1011010011 101101 0111011101 1001100101 01001100 01110100100 1100111 1100100 111101 1011100100 1101010101 11010011111 1101100101 111010101101 1101101111 11011 0111111001 1111 1001110101 011101 01001001 011100 0100110 110100 101101 1101010101 1001010101 1001 0101111101 1100101 11001010101 11111011 1111011 100101001 0111 1101110101 01111 1101000101 11101101 11010101 110100101 11010111 1101111001 10110010111 111101 0101 011100 010101 110100 010101 100101 010101 011011 110101 100111 110101 111111 1010101 1110101 0010101 110101 1111111 110101 110101 110101 10100111 1100101 1100111 1101011111 110101 1101010101 110 1101 010100 1111 0111101 1111011111 11011101001 1101101101 1111111101 1101011101 110101011 11101010111 110011 1101010111 1111011101 10111 1111001111 10111 110111101011 1001001 011111 1011101 0101011 101101 0110110 1101101 011111 1001011 1111110 111111 01001010 0100101 0101101 00111111 10100101000 1110010100101 0101111111 011101 0101 100101 1111 1001010111 0101011101 1111010110 111 01110101101 010111000101 111
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 422
  • Average number of words per stanza: 77
  • Amount of lines: 159
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, and, of, their, thirst, they, night, come, mine, this, though, we are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, we, beyond, and, they, oh, come, mine are repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases her, mine, we connect the lines.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Night In State Street;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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