This is an analysis of the poem Sound And Sights that begins with:

Often, when I wake at night,
I can hear the strangest sounds,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeeffdddggghahX X ababibibaajjdddhhhhihX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,1,22,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011111 1110101 1010111 10111001 1011101 1011101 1011101 1000101 1011111 1111011 1010111 1011001 1110111 1010101 1010111 10111010 1110 100101010 11101110 1010101 10110010 1110111 1 1011111 1110101 0011101 0110001 1010101 0010111 1010101 1010111 1010111 1010101 1011110 1110101 11110101 1011111 1110111 11101010 1010 10101010 11111010 1010111 10111010 1110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 454
  • Average number of words per stanza: 89
  • Amount of lines: 45
  • 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; that is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines weather, courting are repeated).

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