This is an analysis of the poem Frost At Midnight that begins with:
The Frost performs its secret ministry,
Unhelped by any wind. The owlet's cry... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdefagXffhiddjkXidchd dfgddkjbbcidglbmdXefm figddbcfiggXggcnfohfm bXjoonddgl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,21,21,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101010100 10011010101 1111011101 0110110111 1110110111 1001011111 1101010100 1101111001 1101010001 1011001111 01001011111 01010010101 0100110111 11111101101 1011110101 110101101 10010001010 1011000111 100010001 110111010010 10110101001 1011010001 110101 1010101000111 1111010101 10001110101 01110010111 01001010111 01111101110 1101110101 0101010111 1101111101 0011010111 11010010101 1111010111 1101110111 11110101001 1101100111 1011011101 1001110111 0101111111 1111010101 10111101010 1111110101 1111010111 1101010011 110100100 1101010001 1111000111 0101010111 1111111101 1011011111 0011011101 1111010111 1111110101 1111010101 0101010101 1100111111 1101111111 01011101000 0101010111 1010010011 0101111001 1101010111 1101110101 1111010101 10010101001 0101010111 0101011011 0101011011 10011100111 1100010001 1001010001 1101010100 1001000101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 811
- Average number of words per stanza: 145
- Amount of lines: 75
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; that, and, image, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines wood is repeated).
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- summary of Frost At Midnight;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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