This is an analysis of the poem At One O'Clock In The Morning that begins with:

Alone, at last! Not a sound to be heard but the rumbling of some belated and decrepit cabs. For a few hours
we shall have silence, if not repose....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaccXdXXdebfXdebXbdffa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 011110100110100010101010110110 1111001011101000010111011111100 10101100 11111010011100101010101010010 10110100100111011101010111010 1011001 100110011110101011100101010111 1011101010111111100011001010000 010000111010101001110101010101 011101011011001101011010001011 110100100110010101001101000100 1010111001010111011110011000100 1001100010001001101011011011110 0101100100100101101001100100101 111111011110111101010011011 11001011100011100111010011100 010110011001010111010110101001000 011100101 101001011101001111100111101110 100010110101101111101111101 011110110010100011111111010 0101010111011111101001111101000 11101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2302
  • Average number of words per stanza: 418
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 99 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 18
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, last, at, me, to, and, i, myself are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines to is repeated).

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  • summary of At One O'Clock In The Morning;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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