This is an analysis of the poem Two O'Clock that begins with:
Night after night goes by: and clocks still chime
And stars are changing pattrns in the dark ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd ceceff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1101111111 111101001 1101110101 1001010111 0111110001 0101111101 1101010101 1101010101 1111110111 1101010101 0100010111 0111011111 1001011101 101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 312
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, a are repeated.
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