This is an analysis of the poem The Speculators that begins with:
The night was stormy and dark,
The town was shut up in sleep:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd ecec efef fafa afaf gegX hXhe fefX fXgX ibiX cXcX jXjc XjgjgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111011 0111101 101001101101 1111101 1110101 010111 11100101 10011 1100111 0010101 1100101 0010110 110101 111101 1100111 1001001 1001001 110101 1111101101 110011 1110101 110111 110101 0101111 110111 111101 11011111 001001010 1111011 11101110 0111011 1010111 1111101 0010011 111111101 111111 111111 111111 111101111 10100101 1111101 111001 111010111 111111 110101 011010 111101000 111111 110101 1111011 110111 11101111 11110000 1110101 1100111 01001001 1100101101 110011010
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, swaggering, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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