This is an analysis of the poem Midnight that begins with:
November. Midnight damp. Chalk-white beneath
The moon the village lies, by the oppressive...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba cdcd cee cXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 0101111101 01010110010 11010110010 0111010011 0111110101 110010101010 1101110101 01011101110 1101010001 110101011010 01010101110 1101011101 010101110110 11110101010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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