This is an analysis of the poem Noonday that begins with:

I. NOONDAY.
Two angry men—in heat they sever,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abab cdcd eded adad dXdX c fbfb egeg adad aeae Xhgh gfXf f XbXX XcXc aiai XbgX aiag gjgj aXaX e XbXb kjkj elel e didi jeje Xdad mjmj nhnX kckc XXXX g emXX Xmdm gege kgkg XcXc g gcgX ejej aXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110 110101110 111110101 1011111010 111101011 110111110 010101111 111011110 101111011 110111010 110011101 1101110010 110101101 1110111010 110101101 0101011010 10101111 111111010 111101101 101111110 111100111 111 1111101011 1110101011 1110111011 101110101 1101101110 100101101 1001001010 1101110101 01010010010 1101111011 1111001010 010100101 0101111010 110110101 110111010 1101001001 110101110 10100111 110101010 10100101 101101010 11100101 0011101000 10100101 101 100111110 10110101 111111110 11100110 010101110 111110111 111011111 011110101 0111111110 111111101 1111011110 111110111 111111110 11100101 01001101110 1111001100 111111110 111101101 011101010 111101110 111101010 111101111 110111010 110011111 111111110 101101101 111111010 111011101 1010 100101010 10011101 101010010 110101101 1101011110 0100101001 111101010 011101011 110101010 011011111 11001001010 010101101 101 100111110 111101111 1010101010 100101001 101011011 1101110101 11001101111 101111101 110100100 101110101 110111110 110111101 1100111011 11101101 1101001111 011110101 110111010 1111001101 1111101010 011111110 100111110 010111101 100111010 010100101 10110111 100111010 0101001010 111111110 110 010111010 100101111 110111011000 1100100011 1011001100 110101111 100111110 110011101 110101010 1100100101 1110111110 0100101101 1100111010 010100111 1100111010 110011100 101001100 111110111 1101101110 10100110101 110 1101001110 10100101 1111001110 111101110 0101111010 010110101 0101001010 1010100111 111011010 10101101 111111110 10100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 43
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 157
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, and, in, he, she, to, no, her, more, little are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words so, and, slowly, a are repeated.

    The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase calleth connects the lines.

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  • summary of Noonday;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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