This is an analysis of the poem After Preston Fight that begins with:
Twelve o' the clock! the nightmare hours
Crawl through my brain like years;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabacdXdefafbaga Xhchifgfhgdgcgagieee eXehjiiiaededcacheae cgjX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,20,20,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101110 111110 10110111 011111 11010101 1110101 10110101 1000101 111101101 011111 110111001 1100111 11110101 111111 10011001 011001 11111111 111101 11010111 1011111 111111111 111101 11111011 110101 111110111 011011 010111111 111101 111011101 1101000 010100101 010111 11111011 011101 110100101 111011 011110111 111110 01110101 111101 1011101110 110101 100101101 1101111 110101101 1011101 1101010001 1101001 001110101 1011111 11010011 1111101 0110101101 1011101 11101001001 110111 1111101101 00111011 111100110 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 510
- Average number of words per stanza: 103
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, my, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase hills connects the lines.
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