Poem Analysis of Voices Of The Night by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Voices Of The Night that begins with:

PRELUDE.
Pleasant it was, when woods were green,... full text

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Rhyme scheme: a bcbbbc deXdde fafffa dgdddg ffffff hahhhX didddi daddda afaaaf cXcccj jajjja XdcXcd bkbbbk fafffa dddXdd fcfXfc bdbbbd ljlllX lgllXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: couplets
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 11 10011101 110111 01011101 10110101 1111111 100111 11010101 111001 101101000 01010101 1011101 011101 01110101 110101 01011001 11011101 1110101 0101001 010010111 010001 10010001 11011101 1010101 1011111 11011101 110101 11011101 11000101 1010111 110101 11010101 110101 11000101 01000111 1110101 110001 11011111 1000101 11010001 11111101 1001101 010101 11110111 0011101 11010111 11011101 1001101 110111 01110111 010101 10111101 11101111 1111111 101001 11010111 100011100 11111011 11010011 1111111 000111 00011101 000101 10110101 10010111 1010101 110111 01111101 011101 01111101 11011101 1010111 011101 11011101 1011010 01011101 11000101 1010101 1101010 10011111 101111 11010101 101001101 1010111 111101 11010111 1011001 01010101 11101101 1011101 011101 101111110 110101 11010101 11010100 1011101 0101001 100010101 010101 010101001 11010101 10101101 1110111 100010101 110111 11010101 11110111 1011101 1101110 101001111 100111 11010101 11010001 1111110 01111100
Amount of stanzas: 20
Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
Average number of words per stanza: 32
Amount of lines: 115
Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; sound, of, and, into are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, and, into, nor, sees, all are repeated.

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Voices Of The Night by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: poem analysis

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