This is an analysis of the poem A Goodnight that begins with:
Go to sleep--though of course you will not--
to tideless waves thundering slantwise against ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbXacdebabfg hfffegfiXjj fifkXfdgklihfl ddjieil cXelkgcagf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,11,14,7,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101101 010011001001 1010101101 1101111011 101111010010 1111110011 1010110101101 010110 1010010111 011000111 101011000111 1011010011001 10110100110 11 1000111011101 1111110 101111111010 1011010110110 00110010011 00101101 0101100110 111111111110 11101111011 10111001111 111 01100110101011 110110101 011011110100 10010111011 101111110 101000010 1011101111010 1111110111 101001111 1101110101010 1100001001111 1010110101 0100001111010 0100100 011010010 1111110 0100111110 00011 110011011101 101010010 11001101010110 0101110010 010101001 0110001100101 10110101000110 01000101011 1111 000101010100 011010100101 011101101 1011011010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 506
- Average number of words per stanza: 89
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; their, your, and, sleep, it, over, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the 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.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines dream is repeated).
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