This is an analysis of the poem Wings In The Night that begins with:

Now in the soft spring midnight
There's rush of wings and whirr,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbX cdXd befe XeXe eefe cgagXgdcd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010111 110111 1101010 0101001 110101 1111010 1100101 00110110 1011010 1110101 0110010 100101 1100111 101110 0110101 001111 111000110 010101 0110010 110101 111101 1101101 100101 0110111 100101 1001010 100101 1001110
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; home is repeated.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Wings In The Night;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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