This is an analysis of the poem Ne'Er Ask The Hour that begins with:
Ne'er ask the hour -- what is it to us
How Time deals out his treasures? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXXcbcaBAX bdbdededaBAX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010001 1111010 01010111 11011100 010010110110 110110010 11001111010 11110010 110110001 1101010 010101111 01111100 111101010 1111010 110101010 01011010 1111001101 11101110 101011101111 11111110 110110001 1101010 010101111 01111100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 441
- Average number of words per stanza: 83
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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