This is an analysis of the poem At Dead O' The Night, Alanna that begins with:
At dead o' the night, alanna, I wake and see you there,
Your little head on the pillow, with tossed and tangled hair;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccaX ddee Xaff dd gg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010111111 11011010011101 111101001111111 11101110011001 111010100110101 11011010110101 011010101001101 1101011011000101 11101010010011 10111101011001 111010101101101 011011101101001 1110101011010110 11101101000110101 1111001011001011 111101101101101 111010101110100 1011110100111 110010111101001 1101111011101101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you, o', in are repeated.
The author used the same word at at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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