This is an analysis of the poem The Night Journey that begins with:
Hands and lit faces eddy to a line;
The dazed last minutes click; the clamour dies. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab caca bdbd ebeb fgfg bcbcXbaba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010001 0111010101 01011110101 1101010101 100100100001 1011110111 1111011111 1101110101 10111111001 1101011101 1101010101 1111011101 11011101110 110010110111 10010001010 1100101111 1101010001 10010100101 1011010111 1011010101 01011101010 1001110111 11001101010 0111010011 1111010101 1101000111 0111001101 0111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; as, out, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of The Night Journey;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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