This is an analysis of the poem How Goes the Night? that begins with:
How goes the night?
Midnight has still to come....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abab Acac Acac X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1101 111101 1001010101 1111010001 1101 010111 1101010101 0101000101 1101 010111 0101000101 0101010001 01000111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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