This is an analysis of the poem Midsummer Vigil that begins with:
Night smiles on me with her stars,
Mystic, pure, enchanted, lone.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaaba cdecde fghfgX igaiga aahaaj XXaXaa ikgikg jlmjlm nnannX edbedb bfobfo ipfipf aalaal iqbXqbXeqfeqf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001 1010101 111010010 00101111 11100101 10100110 1010101 10111010 10100101 1010101 11001110 1011101 10100111 1011101 10011100 101001011 0111101 10101101 10010111 00100101 1010101 1011101 1010101 1010111 1010101 1010111 11100100 11101001 110101 10001111 00101010 10011100 10111010 11101110 10111001 10101010 1101101 1111111 1111111 1011101 1010101 10111001 1100111 1111011 1011101 1011101 1000101 1010100 1001111 1110111 1000101 1000101 11100101 11000100 1110101 10100110 1001001 1001011 11011010 0110101 1110111 1010011 1110101 0110101 1111101 0010011 1011101 1110111 0111111 1010101 1110101 1110101 1011111 1011111 1110111 10010100 1011111 0111101 1110111 1010111 10111010 011010010 1111101 11101010 11110011 10110101 0010111 1111111 1110101 1000101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 90
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; for, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of Midsummer Vigil;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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