This is an analysis of the poem In The Dark that begins with:
O in the depths of midnight
What fancies haunt the brain!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb cbdb cdXd efdf daXa Xgeg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001011 110101 110010010 110101 01011010 1110101 101110011 101001 01110010 1010101 101010010 1011001 111001110 0101001 11011010 100101 111001010 110111 101001110 101001001 111110010 101111 111111110 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; of is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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