This is an analysis of the poem Tick-Tock that begins with:
Tick-tocking in my ear
My dollar clock I hear....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbXcC ddeeXXcX ffbbggcCC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110011 110111 1000101 100101 010101 010100 010101 11 100101 111101 010101 010101 0101100 110111 010101 11 110111 111101 111101 011000 111111 110011 110111 11 11
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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 poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word tick is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tock is repeated).
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