This is an analysis of the poem The Noon Quatrains that begins with:

THE Day grows hot, and darts his rays
From such a sure and killing place, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccddddddXXXdbbaaXXeeefefXdfffeeffeeggaeecc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01111101 01011101 11011101 01000101 01010001 10011001 11110111 01110100 01110101 11010101 10010101 111101010 1101010 100100001 11010101 01000111 00111011 0101011 11110101 01010101 01011111 100111101 11000111 1 01110001 01010101 010 01111101 110001101 10 10110001 10110111 01110101 11010101 11010101 11010011 11010101 00011101 001001001 010101 11110111 1011010101 00111101 11010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1423
  • Average number of words per stanza: 260
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

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