This is an analysis of the poem All Day And Most Of The Night that begins with:
It took a long time coming,
For me to end the sounds leaking......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXb XXXbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101110 11010110 001010 111101 0010000101010 101101110100 01101010 010011010 110111011100 0011101011010 10111110101 1111001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; it, to are repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.
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