This is an analysis of the poem Hard Times that begins with:
Music is silenced, the dark descending slowly
Has stripped unending skies of all companions....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaaBA acXabbA XdcddbA aeaXXBA eXaXdbA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 100100101010 11010101010 10011110101010 101010101001 1111101 1111010111 0101001110111 01101010 1010101010101001 1001111111 10110101 1111101 1111010111 100101011000 10101110101 10101010101110 01010010101 1101010101010 11111101 1111010111 01010101010 01011111010 10110010101 1101010101 01011101110 1111101 1111010111 1101111111 11011111000 11010110101010 11111110110010 1011010101010 111101 1111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 320
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; not, o, your, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, all are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word wings at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Hard Times;
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