This is an analysis of the poem Living at the End of Time that begins with:
There is so much sweetness in children's voices,
And so much discontent at the end of day,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abb cXd eee Xae dca XXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111001010 11100110101 111101010111 1111010110 1110011011 1110110111 010100101 101001001001 101010100001 11111010101 110101010100 00101100101 1101101011010 10100111111 1011001101010 01101111010 01000100011111 11101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; so, much are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, nor are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word wind at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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