This is an analysis of the poem As One Who Having Wandered All Night Long that begins with:
AS one who having wandered all night long
In a perplexed forest, comes at length... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd cecefgfg fcfchXhg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010111 000110111 00110010101 1101100001 00101000111 10010111001 0101010111 110111111101 1110010111 1101010111 11011101001 0101010101 1011011001 0100010101 0111010101 1001001000101 1101010101 1110010111 0101010111 0101010011 1011010111 00110010110 1011110111 100101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 338
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, 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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