This is an analysis of the poem Clocks that begins with:

HERE is a face that says half-past seven the same way whether a murder or a wedding goes on, whether a funeral or a picnic crowd passes.
A tall...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001111110011100101010111001001011110 0111110100111011101011100100100101111101011011111 01011000101111010000110100100010101111 110110011100110010010101101011011 1011111010010011100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 712
  • Average number of words per stanza: 142
  • Amount of lines: 5
  • Average number of symbols per line: 142 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 28
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; one, in, of, and, it are repeated.

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

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