This is an analysis of the poem Riders In The Night that begins with:
Masks
Death rides black-masked to-night; and through the land... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bccbbccbadeade X b faafghhgeabeab X X hgghhgghibeibe X b dhhddhhdaejaej
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,1,1,14,1,1,14,1,1,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 1111011101 1001110001 01011001101 1011110101 1111010101 0101010111 0101110111 0111111101 1101110101 1101010101 0101110101 1100110101 0101011101 1111010111 1 01 1111010101 0101110101 1001101111 0111010111 0101011101 0101111100 0101111111 1101011111 1101010101 0100011011 1011110111 1001110001 1001110111 1101101101 1 0101 0101100101 0101110101 011100101001 01001110101 0101100111 1011011011 11001000111 1101110101 0101000101 0101110111 10001110111 0101111111 01000101001 1101000101 1 0111 0101010101 1101000101 1100110101 1101011111 1101010001 1001010111 01001110101 1111010101 1101010111 1111010101 1001011111 0101010111 1011000101 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 233
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; and, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the, that, and are repeated.
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