This is an analysis of the poem Girl At Midnight that begins with:
Then walk the floor, or twist upon your bed
While bullets, cold and blind, rush backward from the target’s eye, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcdaeXaX aeabXfXfdXdd bcdd Xead
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,12,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101110111 11011111000101 11101111011011 011101001100 1111011101 0101010111 1111011 0010111011 10111001 0101101101 1101011111 011110011011 011110010011 0101101111 0110111101 1001 111101 1111010101 101110010110 1111011111 011101010101 11010101 111111010101 0101110101 1001000111 11110001001 1111110101 100110111 1111101101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 329
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; dream, in, i, again are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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- summary of Girl At Midnight;
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- idea of the verse;
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