This is an analysis of the poem What The Sleepless Grandam Thinks that begins with:
All through the cold night, beating wings shadowy
Sweep o'er the church-village poor,--...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cded Xfff ghgh efXf ciei fXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101100 11001101 10110010010 1001011 10010010110 1101011 11011010010 10011001 10110111110 1001111 10010010110 0101010 10110011010 1001011 11010111010 1001111 11010111010 1111011 10110010100 1001001 11110010110 1110111 111111010 1011101 10110101101 1111000 10010110110 0011101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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; her, me are repeated.
The author used the same word 'woe at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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