This is an analysis of the poem All Night The Lone Cicada that begins with:
All night the lone cicada
Kept shrilling through the rain–... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa XaXa aaXa XaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 110101 0101010 110001 1001110 110101 11010000 110101 0101010 1100101 001001010 1000101 10010010 100101 0111110 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 109
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word by is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word vain at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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