This is an analysis of the poem The Clock Of The Universe that begins with:
A clock aeonian, steady and tall,
With its back to creation's flaming wall,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcbcdbadbebeb fcghf ijfji iii bkklbbbdd llmmflfm nnhhfaggiiggllffhh gXXoXgglldd bbooggghhdXddd aaaaiibbihf fggbbccXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,5,5,3,9,8,18,11,14,11,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01101011 001010101 110100111 1101001 1111 01101101101 01010101 111101001011 1010111011 011001011001 11100111001 1100 1 110 11 1100111001 111 1 11 111 110100 1111 1 1 1 001011101 0011111 10100 11010101 001101001010 110111010 110101001 111011111 00111011001 1100110101 11101101010 01010010010 0101000101 0100101001 011011101 10110111001 1001001011 101110101 100100011 101001 010111101 100100100 101001 101 1110101 1010101 11101001 1111111 1100101001 1110111001 11011111 0010010101 0011100101 1010110101 1010111001 1011100101 1100101 111011 01011011 1110101 1111110 011101101 10101111 1010101101 111011111 010100111 100100101 11111111 11010101 11111101 11110101 111101111 1111111 10110101 10100100101 110100101 1101111 101100111 11011011011 110100110 1111 10111001 111101101 1011101001 11001011001 10110100101 01110101 01010111 000101101 1100101011 01011101001 1010100101 01101 111 011010101 0100100101 00100011101 0101100111 100111101 110101111 010010101 11110101 100101101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 463
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 112
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, each, and, walking, about, its are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words swing, each, with, walking, tick are repeated.
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- summary of The Clock Of The Universe;
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