This is an analysis of the poem The Cheat Of Cupid; Or, The Ungentle Guest that begins with:
One silent night of late,
When every creature rested,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cXcX dbdb ebeb dfdf gege bebe ahah didi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 11001010 111011 1101010 111111 1101010 111111 1111111 110111 110111 1101011 1100111 110001 1101010 101101 1001010 111101 1111010 110101 1111010 101101 1111010 110101 1101010 111111 110101 110101 1101110 110111 1101110 111101 1111110 110111 0111110 011101 1111010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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