This is an analysis of the poem Watch-Night that begins with:
Midnight, musical and splendid,
And the Old Year's life is ended,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccb ddeeffe ggaacca cchhccX gghhgbh ddaaXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100110 10111010 101100101110111 110101 111010010 10111010 1110101 10100010 10101010 001011101101101 1010111 10101110 10101010 10110001 11011111 11101111 100010101011101 1100101 10101110 10100010 1010001 10101110 11101010 001010100110101 0110101 10101010 100011010 1001110 11101110 10101110 101011101010111 10101101 10101011 11101010 10010111 101000010 10111010 111011101011111 1110111 1111101 1011010 1110111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 261
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, how are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines us is repeated).
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