This is an analysis of the poem In High Noon's Heat that begins with:
In high noon's heat in a Caucasian valley
I lay quite still, a bullet in my breast;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba bbca cbXX aXbdXcbbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01110001010 1111010011 01110111 11111111 1101010101 0101010101 111101 0111111111 11110101 010100111 11010011 11001101 11110101 10110100 01011101 11110111 110101000100 1101110101 0111010101 0101110001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, his are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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