This is an analysis of the poem The Clock With One Finger that begins with:
The clock with one finger
Was made in the days...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cccc dede fFFX gcgc eded hihi jfjf akak fFFX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010110 11001 111010 11001 111110 11111 110010 11011 1011010 11111 1010010 11001 1111 1011 1111 1110 110010 01101 0011011 010101 011111 11101 0011111 11111 1010111 01001 111111 01001 110110 01011 111110 11111 110110 110110 1010010 010010 1111 1011 1111 1110
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 93
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; day, time, on, and are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines day is repeated).
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