This is an analysis of the poem Midnight—september 19, 1881 that begins with:
DEATH OF PRESIDENT GARFIELD.
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbc dada eaea fgfg hchc bcbc hihi jiji Xkck caca kckc cgcg lala mkmk nbnbXanan
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1010111 1001111101 1011110101 0101010101 1011010111 1001011010 0101010101 0110010101 0101010001 1000111111 0111011101 10010010101 1111110001 1111011111 1101010101 1101111001 0101001111 1111010111 1111111111 1101110111 0101110111 0101111110 1101001111 1111110101 0111110101 0101010101 0101010111 0101001101 01011101001 0101010101 0101111001 01011101001 1101110001 0101110110 0111010101 0101010101 1101100101 01110101001 1101010111 0101000101 0111010101 1111000111 1101010001 1101010101 1111010101 1101010101 0111010101 01011100111 0101110111 1101010111 1101010011 1111001101 10101010001 1101010111 1011000101 1101111101 0111010111 0101010101 0101110001 1101011111 0111010101 0101111001 0101110101 1101111101 0100010011
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; our, his, and, he, then are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the are repeated.
The author used the same words he, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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