This is an analysis of the poem Dominating Hours that begins with:
Dominating hours...
Can impose on closing doors....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABC ADXX EdEfEe AABC ADXX EAEAFG ADXX EAEAFGXaGAG
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,4,4,6,4,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010 1011101 0101010 1110101 101010 010101 101100 001010001000 01010101 11011001 01010101 1110010 01010101 10100010111 101010 1011101 0101010 1110101 101010 010101 10110100 001010001000 01010101 0101010 11011101 0101010 1110010 11111111 101010 010101 101100 001010001000 01010101 0101010 11011101 0101010 1110010 11111111 1101010 1011111 101010 1011111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; to is repeated.
The author used the same word dominating at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word dates at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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