This is an analysis of the poem Thinking Of A Friend At Night that begins with:
In this evil year, autumn comes early...
I walk by night in the field, alone, the rain clatters,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXb Xcade fecefdXb AXbbaXf bgeXgAhdXhabfcXf e Xe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,5,8,7,16,1,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010110110 1111001010110 01111011111 1110101100101 1001110010 11010100110 1110100011110 1111111011010 0100011111 010111001001011 10100010101 10110100111001 10100110001 1100101101110 1001011010 10101 110 11010100101101 01110001010 10011101011110 111101101010 01011111111111 100111111001 11111101011 010101110 11101100110 1110110111001 1101111 110 10111011001 110101110 111001011010100 1110110100101 11101010010 0010110011001 001100101 1010010100100101 01010011010 00011101011 010111 01011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 259
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, and, in, your, to, his, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, of are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase maybe connects the lines.
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