This is an analysis of the poem Whip-Poor-Will And Katy-Did that begins with:

Slow de night 's a-fallin',
An' I hyeah de callin,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX aXXXXa XXXXaX XXbXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011010 111010 1100101 101010 101110 1010111 1111010 10111 11111111 111110 1101010 101100101 001110 1110010 1100110 1011010 101110 1111101 111100 111010 10101111 1110010 110010 1001100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de is repeated.

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