This is an analysis of the poem It Was Going on Five in the Morning that begins with:

It was going on five in the morning
The ship of steam stretched its chain to shatter the windows...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXXdXXedffdegacegbXXee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0110110010 0101101010010 111 010 1010101 0110011001 0100010011011 1010010 1110101001010011 0101111101011 1111110101101 110011001011001 11111101100 0111011000100101 01001 110111101111010 01111 11 10011110100010 111001001 01010 0010110101000100 111111 1011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 892
  • Average number of words per stanza: 161
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; of, that are repeated.

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