This is an analysis of the poem A Night-Piece On Death that begins with:
By the blue taper's trembling light,
No more I waste the wakeful night,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXccdd cceeXXddbbfXaaaaeeXX eeff ggcchh ccffaaii ffffcX ddhheeff ccffffeeff Xfffee ddjjhhkkaaeecX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,20,4,6,8,6,8,10,6,14,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101001 111101001 01010101 010101010 11010101 11110101 110100111 11010101 11110101 110110001 11110101 01010101 01010101 01011101 11010101 01011101 01110101 01000101 01100101 110101010 11011101 01010101 11010101 11010101 11110111 01010001 101111110 111011110 11010101 11010101 10010101 11110001 01111101 01010101 11110101 11011101 01010101 11010101 01011111 11010101 11010101 11010111 11010101 01011101 11110111 11000111 1111111001 01010101 11111101 11010101 11010111 1010100010 10111101 11010101 10110101 11011101 11011111 100111111 01010101 11000101 101111101 11010111 11110101 11111111 10110111 11110101 11011101 01110101 01010101 00110101 1011101010 11010101 11010111 11110101 11011111 110010001 101010101 11011101 11110101 01110101 100110011 011010101 11110101 11011101 11100101 01110011 11111101 10110101 10111101 110001010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 332
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 90
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; and, they, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, whose, ye, they, nor are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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