This is an analysis of the poem The Watches Of The Night that begins with:
O the waiting in the watches of the night!
In the darkness, desolation, and contrition and affright;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabbba aaaaXXXa aaaaaXaaXaaabbba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,8,16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10100010001 001010101010110 01011111010101 01010100110101 010101010010101 01010111010101 00101010001 11001010001 010011101010101 01010101010101 110010111 1110100 011011010111100 111111011100100 10101010001 1100010001 11010101110101 111110101110101 011111001110111 110011100010101 00111110001 1101 1101010001 1111010001 101010100111101 100111100010101 011010111110101 101001100010101 101010110010001 00100010001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 392
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ever, of, we, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, with, what are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines night is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word night at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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