This is an analysis of the poem At Night that begins with:
Ah, yes, I miss the baby,
My little cherub bright ; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aX a X bc b Xc Xc Xa Xa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,1,1,2,1,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010 110101 11011001 110111 01010111 010101 11011111 110011 11110101 1100101 01011101 0111011 01011101 100101 11011101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 46
- Average number of words per stanza: 9
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; miss, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i 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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