This is an analysis of the poem Eight O'Clock that begins with:
He stood, and heard the steeple
Sprinkle the quarters on the morning town. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010 1001010101 11110101110 0101 11010010 1111001101 11010100010 0111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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