North Infinity Street by Conrad Potter Aiken: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem North Infinity Street that begins with:

The alarm clocks tick in a thousand furnished rooms,
tick and are wound for a thousand separate dooms;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaBB aacc Xdee ddff ggBB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 001110010101 111110101011 11110101001 1111000111 11110110111 10010101111 10011101101001 010101001101 01110101111 01111010101 110010100101 111010101101 10111010111 10111010101 1010110100101 100101001001 101001001010 11100101010 11110101001 1111000111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; when, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, at are repeated.

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