This is an analysis of the poem At Midnight Hour that begins with:
AT midnight hour I went, not willingly,
A little, little boy, yon churchyard past,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aX a B c dc d B a da dXB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,2,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 11110111100 0101011111 0101010111 11011101001 11110 110100100101 1111011101 01110110101 1011001111 11110 0111011101 1101011101 1101010101 0101110101 11110
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 48
- Average number of words per stanza: 9
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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