This is an analysis of the poem In The Night that begins with:
Where art thou, thou lost face,
Which, yet a little while, wert making mirth... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcacbdadc efdedfgegd dhidiagdgi cgjcjggcgj kjekejlklX ddhdhdcdca mgnmngXmc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111111 1101011101 1110111100 1111110101 1101111101 1101000101 0101110101 0101001101 1111011101 0100010101 1111000101 1111011111 1101011101 1011111111 1111011101 1100111101 1011110111 1101010111 1001111111 0101110101 1111011101 10010011110 1101111111 0100111011 1101000101 1111110110 1111100101 0011111101 1001111111 1111010101 1100110101 1111110011 1001111011 0111001101 1101110101 0101110101 1101010101 1101110011 0101111111 1111101101 1111010101 1111001111 1011010111 1101010111 0101001101 0011110101 0101110111 1111111111 0111111101 1001010100 1100110111 1111010101 1011011011 1101010101 0111011111 0101110111 0100010110 1111010001 1111000111 1111011101 1111111110 1111010101 1001010101 1111010101 1001111101 1011111111 0111010100 0111010101 101111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 417
- Average number of words per stanza: 84
- Amount of lines: 69
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thou, which, and, me, one, it, to, my, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word where at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines night is repeated).
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