This is an analysis of the poem The Surgeon At 2 A.M. that begins with:
The white light is artificial, and hygienic as heaven.
The microbes cannot survive it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabcdcaaea acXffggdcg ahbhddcchc XaXciXgigi aXXehgXbac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 011010101100110 01110010 110100101010101 001010101 0101001010110 0101000011 11001011010011 0101100100101 1111001111 01010101011 00010110101011 10110100 01011010101 10110011 00011 110110111111 0100111001 1111 001000110 11110010100 0100111010 1110111001110 10111001010 11000101 1111111 0100110100110 1101010 10001010000101 01000101 011011011001 0001101001101 110100 111011101 010111 0100010111 111010010100010 01011010111 011101 01001110 01101001011101 10110010111 0100110101 01101010010010 0100101111 11110010 10011 110110011000 011111111101 11010111 1101011101110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 405
- Average number of words per stanza: 77
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; it, in, and, blue are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, it, i are repeated.
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