This is an analysis of the poem The Children's Hour that begins with:
Between the dark and the daylight,
When the night is beginning to lower,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb daea XfXf gcbc Xheh afdf ciXi XhXh gaiaXbdid
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011011 1010010010 1010011010 101101010 110010011 0100101 010011010 110111 0110110010 0100111 110110010 1100101 01011010 11111101 1110110010 011101 01010011 0101001 1111010 1101101 11100110 100111011 0110011011 1100101 1110101010 1101101 1110010010 00110101 111111100 0111101 11111111 0101111 11110110 1011101 111100010 00110011 110111010 1010101 101110010 1100101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; they, you, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, a, they are repeated.
The author used the same words a, they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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