This is an analysis of the poem A Noon Song that begins with:

There are songs for the morning and songs for the night,
For sunrise and sunset, the stars and the moon; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbaCa dedefaba fXfgXaeaXgbgbbaCa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101011101 11111101101 11011001001 11101001001 1011011 010101 1011110111 001001001 11011001001 11011101011 11101011111 001001001101 1011011 011111 1011100101 001001001 101001101111 010010010110 01011001111 01011011001 100100110 0101101 10111101001 101001001 101001001011 01001011101 01001101001 01001111001 1011011 010101 1011110111 001101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 344
  • Average number of words per stanza: 70
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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, for, of, noon, toil, hour, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words how, the are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines noon is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word west at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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