This is an analysis of the poem At Midnight that begins with:
THEY were two poor young girls, little older than children,
Who passed through the midnight streets of the city... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc dec fcc gfc afc egc dXc fXcXgbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111010110 11101110010 10 1011010011010 111111111010 10 101100111010 111010110111 10 11111111010 1011011011110 10 10110010110 1011010011010 10 010100100110 011010010010 10 01111010010 010010011010 10 1110010100010 1010110010110 10 011011011010 011010011010 10
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words singing, of, a are repeated.
The author used the same word of at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase singing connects the lines.
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