This is an analysis of the poem You Came To Spend The Night that begins with:
You came...
To spend the night! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCdXAbCXE BEBEBEeEE BEBEBEeE ABBBCd E BEBEBEeE EBEBEBEeE X X EBEBEBEeEXEBEBEBEeE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,9,8,6,1,8,9,1,1,19,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 0101 1101 1111010 1 11 0111 1101 111 11 11111 11 11111 11 11111 11 1 11 11 11111 11 11111 11 11111 11 1 11 11 11111 0101 11111 1101 111110 11 11111 11 11111 11 11111 11 1 11 11 11111 11 11111 11 11111 11 1 11 100101 1101110 11 11111 11 11111 11 11111 11 1 11 11 11111 11 11111 11 11111 11 1 11
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 96
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 71
- Average number of symbols per line: 14 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; tit, bang are repeated.
The author used the same words tit, could at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines bang is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word bang at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase bang connects the lines.
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