This is an analysis of the poem One O'Clock In The Morning that begins with:
At last! I am alone! Nothing can be heard but the rumbling of a few belated and weary cabs. For a few hours at least silence will be ours, if not...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X X X X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110110101101000010101101101101110001011110100001011101111001111101110 1111010010010101010100100101001001010111011100101110101011001 1001100101111100010011100101001010111010111110111010100110000010000111011010110101110101000000010110101010001110101011100101001010100110010101001101100010010101110010101011110010001010101100010001010010111001111011100101001110100110011111101111110101010010111001100011100111101000100101010001011010001011000111010100100001111111 01010101010101111001111001110010110100110111111011111101011110010000110010101111111100101100100101111110100111110100011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 559
- Average number of words per stanza: 102
- Amount of lines: 4
- Average number of symbols per line: 559 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 102
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, of, i, me, and, in, with, that, you, myself, whom, at, few, not, my, last, those, all, who, be are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word at is repeated.
The author used the same word at at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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