This is an analysis of the poem Over The Alley that begins with:
Here in my office I sit and write
Hour on hour, and day on day, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd ceceaXaX fXfbgbgb dhdhcbcb iaiachch fbfbjXjc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101101111 101101111 0110100111 11101011001 010101101 0101100111 011100101 011101101 010101101 011111001 1011101111 100100101 010101111 1011110111 1100100111 1100101111 1101101111 01101001101 1011010101 0100110111 0110100111 1111100101 100101101 1110101001 111100101 1000101101 110111111 0011100111 100100111 0110111011 110010111 1111011001 11101101 100101111 1011100111 111100101 1111111111 010101101 1111111001 1111011111 111101111 1101111101 11110101001 11101100111 100101101 1111101110 111111111 1001011001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 326
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 48
- 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; her, and, or, i, how, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, her are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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