This is an analysis of the poem Song Of Myself, XXXVI that begins with:
Stretch'd and still lies the midnight,
Two great hulls motionless on the breast of the darkness,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXabcXXXcaXcXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011 1111001010010 11010110101010010011110 010101011010010101001101 1101001110010 011011101111100110 01101110110001101 010100011110011110 101010110101101010111 1010100101100101 110101100101011 01111011011010 10010111010111101110010010010 01001010101001 11101011111111001 1111000
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1149
- Average number of words per stanza: 200
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 71 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
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 word the is repeated.
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