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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