This is an analysis of the poem The Midnight Club that begins with:
The gifted have told us for years that they want to be loved
For what they are, that they, in whatever fullness is theirs,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabbaXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01011110111001 11111101101001 1100001111111111 01111110011 01100111111 110001001010110 1101110011101 11010100111001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 475
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, that, in, on are repeated.
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- summary of The Midnight Club;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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