This is an analysis of the poem Midsummer Night, Not Dark, Not Light that begins with:
Midsummer night, not dark, not light,
Dusk all the scented air,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcDcd eacabfbf XeaecDcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011111 110101 110110111 111111 101011111 0110111 110110010101 1101101 11011101 111101 11110101 010111 111101101 0101111 11110001101 1111011 110010110 1101101 11011111 010111 1110111101 0110111 110110010101 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 282
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ring, would, sad are repeated.
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