This is an analysis of the poem Midnight that begins with:
WHEN to my Eyes
Whilst deep sleep others catches, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbcddcaaeXaeX bfbfccdbbdggahha
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,16,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011 1111010 1101 0110110 1101 1101 111111 1111 1111 001101 11010 1010 11111 11100 1010 11101 1 1111 10100101 11001 1111001 1111 1101 110011 1111 1011 110111 11110 1010 10101 01010 1110 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 474
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of Midnight;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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