This is an analysis of the poem Little Miss Six O'Clock that begins with:

JUST at the edge of the night and the morning,
Little Miss Six O'clock comes to my bed,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcXcX dedeafaf XgXgahah ijijbjbj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010011010 1011011011 011010010010 11101101101 111110111110 110111110111 110110111110 110011011010 10110111110 11101101001 1111011010110 1001101101 11110111010 01011101001 10010010110 1011011001 11101011100110 11011111011 1110100101110 111011001011 1001111010010 11001101001 110110111010 1111001111 111111111 1100101101 1101101111 100110101 101011101011 11001110101 1100101101 1101101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 360
  • Average number of words per stanza: 73
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; and, i, as, up, my, she are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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