This is an analysis of the poem A Song For New Year's Eve that begins with:
Stay yet, my friends, a moment stay—
Stay till the good old year, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababAa cdcdAa ebebAa ffffAa ghghAaXfhfhAa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110101 110011 11010011 111111 1111 110101101 01110111 111101 111010111 100101 1111 110101101 010101001 110101 11110111 011111 1111 110101101 11011101 111111 11000111 1101011 1111 110101101 11001111 010101 11010011 011110 1111 110101101 101111101 111101 00110001 100111 1111 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; stay, oh are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words stay, how, oh 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.
The poet repeated the same word away at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase stay connects the lines.
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