This is an analysis of the poem A Word For The Hour that begins with:
The firmament breaks up. In black eclipse
Light after light goes out. One evil star,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacccddeefeeedffggbefbhahaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0100110101 1101111101 1001010101 1001000101 1101111101 1101011101 11110100111 1110010001 1101010101 1101101101 1111110101 1111011101 01000011101 1111011101 0110000101 1101010111 01001010101 1111011101 1111010101 1011010101 1011010101 1101001101 11110100101 1001110111 1101011001 0011010111 0101011111 01010101001 1011011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1230
- Average number of words per stanza: 225
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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