This is an analysis of the poem The Prophecy Of St. Oran: Part Iv that begins with:
I.
It is the night: across the starless waste... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbcdd Xaaaade Xfdfdbb Xdfefff acgcXee adfdfhh Xibibhh XbXbgcc Xdgegaa ebfbfaa achchjj XgdgeaX Xkfkfll XfafXii Xhbhbmm Xggggbb Xebebde XmXmggg XnfnfjX XXfglfX XaiaigX Xdfdfbb XgagafX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 0001010101 01010010101 1101011101 1101010111 10010100001 1011010011 1 101011100001 11010001001 1101101101 1011110011 10010110001 0001010101 1 11101101101 0101000111 0101010101 11010010101 1101010101 0101000101 1 1101011111 0101010101 1111010101 111000101 0101110101 1101110101 1 1101011001 11000100101 1101011111 1001010101 1101011101 10111100101 1 1101010011 0101010111 01010010101 1101010101 0101110111 1101010101 1 1101100101 1101000111 1101110001 0101010101 1101010101 0101011101 1 1111111011 1111100100 1101111101 0111110111 01100111101 11110111001 1 1111010101 1101111101 0111010101 0101111001 1011000101 1001100111 1 1001010101 1111110101 1001111001 1001010101 100011100111 1011010111 1 1011011101 1101010101 0110011001 11000110001 1101111001 0110110111 1 1111011011 11001110111 1101010101 1101011101 1101110110 0101000100 1 10110011101 11010010101 1011010101 1011110111 11010111010 11011101110 1 1001110101 01010010101 01110010001 1101011100 1011010111 0100110100 1 1011011101 0111010111 1011010101 1110110111 0101111011 1101100101 1 1111110101 1101010101 1111011101 01011101111 0111010101 1101010101 1 1101111111 01001110111 0101111101 00111010001 1101111101 0101110101 1 110101101 1101110100 1101010101 0111001111 0111010001 0101010111 1 1101011101 1111100101 10011110101 1101010101 1001010101 10010111010 1 1110011011 1111010101 1011011001 11010101010 1101011101 10100111110 1 1111010111 1110101111 11001001101 0111010101 1110011101 11110110010 1 1100110111 1101011101 0101110111 0111010101 1101100101 1101011011 1 110111001001 0101111101 111100001 1101110101 1101011101 10100111110
- Amount of stanzas: 23
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 267
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 183
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, to, has, no, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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