Analysis of Suspiria Noctis



Reading, and reading—little is the gain
Long dwelling with the minds of dead men leaves
List rather to the melancholy rain,
Drop—dropping form the eaves

Still the old tale—how hardly worth the telling!
 hark to the wind!again that mournful sound,
That, all night long, around this lonely dwelling,
 Moans like a dying hound.


Scheme ABAB CDCD
Poetic Form Traditional rhyme
Quatrain 
Metre 1001010101 1101011111 110101001 110101 10111101010 11011101 11110111010 110101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 323
Words 54
Sentences 3
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 129
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Submitted by naama on July 13, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Henry Howard Brownell

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