This is an analysis of the poem In The Secular Night that begins with:
In the secular night you wander around
alone in your house. It's two-thirty....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdeafeXgabhi ajkfbgjiaggXjkkhkhececjgd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,25,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00100111001 010110110 10110101 100110 1010001001 1010011110001 111010 1110101 11011001011 111010100 1101111110 00111 11010111011010 111010110110 1111101110010 110010111 1010101 010100010101 0011001001 10101001100100 111110 11011101 1001011011001 1001011 1001011110 1110110 1011100101 11110110 0110110 0101011 10001 111111110 1101 10010001 01101010 11000001 111110 110110 010011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 461
- Average number of words per stanza: 85
- Amount of lines: 39
- 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; you, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, you are repeated.
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