This is an analysis of the poem All Souls' Night that begins with:

Epilogue to 'A Vision'
MIDNIGHT has come, and the great Christ Church Bell... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abcXbcdeedfghFghiJjIcfkcfkegXeacgaclammacmacmafjjfcndcndcmockofkoffXffcmfcmfcmocgdXldaiJjIcmmcmmfhhF
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,100,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 1010110 1111101111 1101011101 100111 1111010100 10010100111 100011 0100011 1010101 010011 1111010011 1111100101 01001000111 101100 1100010111 01110100101 0101001 110101 111101 010111 11111100101 1001111111 1111010001 110101 1101010101 1011110101 100101 101101 11111 01000 0110110101 1101111111 1000111101 111011 1101111101 110110001 100100 111101 0101001 010101 0101110001 1101001101 1100110101 0101100 1101010101 010010101101 010101 0101011 011111 011001 10011000101 01111111001 0010010001 111100 10110100101 01001000111 01010001 111111 101111 010101 1100010111 1111010001 1011111101 110101 1111010111 1111110101 110111 1011001 111110 11001110 1111010001 1111001101 11001001100 11011 1101001011 1101011111 1110111 11110001 010111 011011 111111001001 11110110100 1101001111 010100 1101010100 1101110011 1110101 100101 111101 110111 11111100101 1111111101 1101010101 101111 0111100101 0101110111 11011 111001 111101 101100 1100010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1762
  • Average number of words per stanza: 324
  • Amount of lines: 101
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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