This is an analysis of the poem Midnight that begins with:
The air is dark and fragrant
With memories of a shower,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb bdad acXc Xeae cefe afXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101110 01000010 1100010 1011010 0101010 011101 11001010 010111 1110011 011001 1100010 010011 11111100 110101 0111010 11011 1101010 110101 0100110 110111 0101101 110101 11010010 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 106
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; and, of are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Midnight;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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