This is an analysis of the poem High Noon that begins with:
It's rummy, the way things come back to you . . . Down by the Docks
I'd stopped at a junk store, all rusty old hinges and locks,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa bbb bbb ccc ddd eee fff ggg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01001111011101 11101111011011 11111111011011001 11001001011011 01011011011011 11110111101011111 11101011011110 11001001101 101101001011101011 01001101111001 01001101101001 101001011001101001 110011010110101 01001101111001 001101011001011001 11101001011001 010001101001011 01001001101101101 11001001101101 01001011001111 01111101111101111 101101111101001 011011011001101 101111101011011001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 65 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, it, of, his, old, with, in, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same words and, old at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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