This is an analysis of the poem Song Of The New Year that begins with:
I heard the bells at midnight
Ring in the dawning year;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcbdbEFEX cacagbXbEFEX XcXcdfdfEFEX fhdhgdXdEFeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111 100101 10101010 0011101 01001010 1010101 00101010 1010101 1101110 1010011 10100010 1010101 11101010 0010011 10101110 1110111 10111010 10100101 10101110 1010101 1101110 1010011 10100010 1010101 11101010 0110011 0100110 0011001 10101010 1010101 10101010 1010001 1101110 1010011 10100010 1010101 11111010 10100111 10101010 1010101 1101010 1010101 10101110 0010101 1101110 1010011 101010010 0010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 353
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; and, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and 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.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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