This is an analysis of the poem The Day Of Doom that begins with:
Still was the night, Serene & Bright,
when all Men sleeping lay;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdefe ceceghgX abbbiXeX gcacghXh djgjdghX hebedaXa aeeekkgk ghXhdcac bhjhdkXk bcfcdXjX ichceebe clglheke dfhfgeieXcadacghd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011 111101 110101010 111111 11111101 101101 01111101 01001 10001101 110101 01011101 111001 10011101 0101010 11111101 11110100 11111101 110101 110001001 010101 10011111 100110100 01011111 1100100 11010101 101101 10011111 110111 100111101 010111 10011110 011111 01010111 1111010 010111001 1100110 010111001 110111 10011101 111101 11111111 111101 11111111 1111001 11011101 101101 11101101 101101 11011111 111111 11111101 110001 11011111 100111 01011111 111101 11010111 010101 11010001 011101 10011101 110101 11110101 110101 01110101 111111 010111110 111001 11011001 101101 11011111 110101 01110101 010101 01010101 110101 01000110 110100 10010110010 111101 01010111 010111 10110101 100101 011110001 110111 01110001 111111 01010101 0100101 11111101 110101 11011101 100101 11011101 11101001 0111111 010100 10111111 110101 10111101 110111 11111101 010101 110010101 010101 1101010 101111 0101011010 110100 01011011 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 112
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; their, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is 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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