This is an analysis of the poem That Night When I Came To The Grange that begins with:

The trees took on fantastic shapes
That night when I came to the grange;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aBbXbB cccccc deedee feefee eccXcc ccccXc gggggg hAahaA fIifiI cggcgg gccgcc jkkjkk ellell lhhlhh eaaXaa mggmgg caXcfa gaaXaa lnnlnn nllnll googoo ffffff nEeneE nccncc gFfgfF nllnll gggggg heeheeXcbbcbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 01110101 11111001 01010101 010111110 01011101 11111001 01111101 10110101 11010111 01010101 11010111 100010001 11111101 11011101 11110001 01010101 01010101 11011101 01110101 01111101 11010111 11011101 01001101 11011101 01111111 10010101 011100101 01010100 11010111 01011101 01111101 10010111 11011111 01000111 01011111 01100111 11110101 11011011 11000101 11110111 11010001 11001111 01111100 01011111 0111101 11111111 11010011 01011111 01111101 01110101 010011101 11010111 01010101 01110101 01110001 11010111 011100111 01110111 010011101 01110111 01110101 11101100 11110101 01111111 01111101 01001100 11111111 01111111 11010101 010101001 01010101 11010111 10110101 11100101 11010111 11011101 11011011 01111101 11110101 11110001 11111001 11010101 01100101 11111011 11110111 11100101 11111111 11101100 11010101 11101101 11111011 10111101 01110101 01011111 11111101 10010101 01011101 11111101 10111011 11110101 11011100 11011111 11010101 11110101 11011101 0111001010 01111111 11110001 11010111 11010101 111111001 01010101 11010111 01010101 11110111 11110111 10010111 11100101 11011101 01111111 11111111 00011101 01011111 01011101 01111101 11111111 01110111 01010111 110010101 01111011 01110111 11001111 11011101 11011111 11011111 11010101 01111101 11011111 110111001 11010111 11111101 11110111 01010101 10011101 11110111 01000111 01011111 01010101 11110111 01000111 11011111 01100101 11110101 01011101 01110101 11000101 110101111 10011111 11011111 01010101 11011101 11011011 11111111 11010111 110110101 11111101 01111101 11110111 011100001 11111001 11111011 11111111 11111101 11010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 29
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 174
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; that, i, this, my, she are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the, that, she are repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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