This is an analysis of the poem At Midnight that begins with:
At midnight in the trysting wood
I wandered by the waterside,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaa Xaaa bcbc XaXaXaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100101 11010100 11110111 111111 110111100 11110101 10010111 010111 110111001 01111111 11011101 111111 111011000 011010111 10111111 110101 11111111 11111111 11001111 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, my, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word she is repeated.
The author used the same word what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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