This is an analysis of the poem Night Rhapsody that begins with:
How beautiful it is to wake at night,
When over all there reigns the ultimate spell... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbacdeaXeefdghi AbhdgejkabeeX aaleaeimkaedl adbeekeXeXd Abedgefejnmcae aXeafnjdknhimlaA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,13,13,11,14,16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1100000111 11011101001 0011010101 0101101101 01010011001 01010101010 100100011 0100010001 01001100101 0100110111 0101010111 100101111101 1100110101 1101111101 1101011101 1100000111 0101010111 1001110101 0101000001 0111100101 0011110101 1011010101 11010010100 0011011101 0101011101 0101011101 1010101100 110 11000111 0101111111 1101001001 0101010101 0101010101 0101011101 1101010101 0101010101 0100001100 1001010101 0011010101 0011001101 1011001111 1100110101 1111011101 0101010101 110100010010 1111110101 010101000100 11110010111 1001010101 0111011101 110100110000 01100100011 1100000111 0101010111 11010011111 110101001001 1110000111 1001010100 01001001101 1101001101 0111011001 1101010101 1100011101 10010100101 0100010111 01110100111 1100000111 01010100001 0011010101 1011000101 0101010101 0111010001 0111010101 0101000111 0100100100 0100110001 1111100101 1011011101 11010010110 1101111011 0101110111 1100000111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 562
- Average number of words per stanza: 100
- Amount of lines: 82
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ever, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word how at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Night Rhapsody;
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