This is an analysis of the poem At Midnight In The Bakery At The Corner that begins with:
At midnight in the bakery at the corner
While bread and butter-biscuits are being baked...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABXcd ABebX ABedX Xc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001001010 11110101101 10100100111 1101001 101001 111001001010 11110101101 111001011 01011101011001 111110001 111001001010 11110101101 010010111011 1001110101 1101011111 1010100101 00010101110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; in is repeated.
The author used the same word at at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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