This is an analysis of the poem By The Hour that begins with:
By the hour.
Distrust and fear, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDEEF bghchfedda iiaXheEXi ABCDEEFga AEhAEEFfgXcacddaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,10,9,9,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010 0111 01001011 101010 010011110 11111 110111 01010100101 11010 1011110 1001 1111010 111010 10111110010 100010 110000011 11010 1101101101 11101111 10011010 1000001001 111010101010 001111101 10010 11010010011 0100111 1010 0111 01001011 101010 010011110 11111 110111 000101010100 000101010 1010 10010 1101011001 1010 10010 11111 110111 000101 1110100 00101110 0100101010 000101110 0010001 0100011001 10101010 01001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, by are repeated.
The author used the same word by at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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