This is an analysis of the poem Noonday Axeman that begins with:
Axe-fall, echo and silence. Noonday silence.
Two miles from here, it is the twentieth century: ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abca dXcX cccc ceXa fXcg hcca cXag Xaca aacf aaXX iXca idXc cbga cccc ifhc ahcb ccea caga acfb cfceaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101101010 11001000100100 11011010001001 1011111000010 1110110111011 1010110101 11111010101 1101100110111 11010100100 1001111101 0101010011 10111010101 111111010011 111111000111 101011101110 010011110010 01000101010 0100010010010 110010101101 1011110110110 11010101010 110110110011 10111101111 1100101001010 11110110101 1110111111001 1111101111 01011010101 1101010110101 1111010101 1111001011111 01111110010010 100111010110 1111110001011 110101011010 00101110010100 111011010010 0110011011100 11111101100100 1110001011110 01110101001 1011111011010 1001101101010 1011010010010 11111010101 11011101011 11101101001 11011101010 1110110000100 01101110110010 11111101011010 1111011110010010 111110101011 1110010110010 10111101110010 1110110101011 1011101011010 1010110010010 1001111010010 0101110101001 11101101010 11111001010010 01011011101 11010010100100 00101110100100110 1100010101111 10101101011010 1101001010010 101101010010 111101101010 110111100110 01110101000110 11101111010 11100101011111 1011100101010010 111010100100100 01001011110011 101110111010 100100111110 010101110010 001010101010 1101111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 82
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, in, have, of, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, a, as, made, for are repeated.
The author used the same word axe at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines silence is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word silence at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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