This is an analysis of the poem Tonight At Noon (For Charles Mingus And The Clayton Squares) that begins with:

Tonight at noon
Supermarkets will advertise 3d EXTRA on everything ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbAcdXXXe Aeefffda XXXXXcX XbXXA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,8,7,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111 101001011101101 0111 1001010000101001 10001110101 01000011110 111100011000110101 01101010001 101110001 0111 1001111011 10011011010110101 010101000110101 1001010001010101100 110101110111 1010001011101010011 10101101010101 100101100 101101111 100011010101 1011100011 10101010001100 111101111110 011010111101100111 001011101010100 10010 1 1011111 0111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 315
  • Average number of words per stanza: 55
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.

    The author used the same word tonight at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Tonight At Noon (For Charles Mingus And The Clayton Squares);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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