This is an analysis of the poem Hymn To The North Star that begins with:
The sad and solemn night
Hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedeff babagg hdhdbb egegii babaaaXiiiiee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 011101 11010101010 0100101 1011011101 1101010101 0101011101011 1111001 0101011111 101101 0111000101 100110010111 1101001011101 111101 1001111101 010111 1111100101 11010011001 111101001101 111101 1101010101 111101 1001101101 11011101011 0101010110101 010111 0101010111 1010111 1101010101 0111010101 101101110111 1110001 0111000101 100101 1110000101 11110100111 111111011111 111101 1011000101 001101 0101010100 1101010111 010001110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thou, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nor, and are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase there connects the lines.
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