Night Thought by Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Night Thought that begins with:

The world around is sleeping,
The stars are bright o'erhead, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXXbXbacaX ababaXaXXcXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101010 0111100 010110 010111 01010100 010101 11101010 0010101 1100110 0010101 00101010 101111100 01101110 100111 01001010 110111 0101010 00100111 10101010 0011110 10100010 110111 10010100 101111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 386
  • Average number of words per stanza: 64
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is 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 poet repeated the same word again at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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

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

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