This is an analysis of the poem Since Nine O'Clock that begins with:
Half past twelve. Time has gone by quickly
since nine o'clock when I lit the lamp ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXX bacdXcXeX aeddeXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,9,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111110 110111101 111110100110 011001001001 11110 110111101 0101110 110110011 01101 011001011010 10101101 11010100 1001111 1001111101 0101110 1011011111 10011010 0100111010 001110010 111101111 111100111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, half are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines by is repeated).
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