This is an analysis of the poem I Am Channeling Poe that begins with:
Once upon a midnight dreary
'I've heard that before.'...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXb XcbX cb aXcXXbdX e XeedXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,2,8,1,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101110 111100 111001 111010111 1111010010 11001011011 111111010110 11110011011 11 1111100 11101001 11111010 11111 111011011 1 0111011111 1111010011 11101111 11101 10110111 11000 11011 1111011010 111100 10101101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, you are repeated.
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- summary of I Am Channeling Poe;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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