This is an analysis of the poem Phantasmagoria Canto I (The Trystyng ) that begins with:
ONE winter night, at half-past nine,
Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaab cbccX adaaX dXdde fgffX hfhhf ijiiX khddX cicci iliil hlhhl amaam mmmmm ibiif hahhX hihhX mdmmk iiiiX iniin memme ghggX fXffj gXXXb iXiiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011111 11011110 11111101 11000111 1100010 11010001 1101110 11011001 11010101 1111010 11000101 010101 111110111 101100001 11101100 1010100101 101010100 11010101 11011101 0101110 11011111 110101 101110011101 11010111 11110100 111010111 110111 101110101 100110101 110101 101010001 011001 11111001 010010101 1101010 10101110101 110001 11110111 01110101 0101000 111010001 01010000 11011111 11111111 1101110 100111101 0100010 01110101 01010111 0111010 100011111 1101110 11010101 11011111 0100110 101000111 1101010 11011101 11010111 1100010 101011101 1111010 11110111 11110011 1101110 101011111 01010100 11010111 01110101 01011111 11010111 111111 11010101 11110111 11011000 10101110101 110001 11010111 01010101 1111000 1011110101 10111010 01010101 11010111 1101010 101110101 010101 10110101 01010100 1101110 11000101 0101010 11110001 11010111 1111110 10101110101 0101011 11111101 01111111 0101010 101001101 0101010 11110101 01010111 01110110 101110111 0001010 1011101011 101111111 010101 101111111 01010100 11111101 11001101 0111110 11110111 1100110 100111001 11010001 010001000
- Amount of stanzas: 24
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 120
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, in, i, to, at, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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