This is an analysis of the poem High Noon that begins with:
Time’s finger on the dial of my life
Points to high noon! And yet the half-spent day... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcd cefXghXabhgeiejXikhi chfkhh fkad aXfjlhegblk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,20,6,4,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010011 1011110111 1111010101 1110010101 0111010001 01001011101 110101101 1101110101 1001010111 0111010011 1111111110 1101010111 1101010111 0111000111 1111100101 1111011111 1101110101 1111110101 0111010111 01010001010 1111011101 0101010001 0101010011 1101110 101 1111011101 1101010001 1111010101 0111010100 1101010 101 1001011101 1111110101 1111010001 10001011011 10110011100 1111110101 0111110101 1111011111 0111000111 1011000101 0111010011 1101101101 011101011 0111100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 370
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 45
- 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; for, not, with, to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word looking at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of High Noon;
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