This is an analysis of the poem In The Waste Hour that begins with:
In the waste hour
Between to-day and yesterday... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdXdXefdfX ghfcieXfc jgbcc aXjjbgXg cXghffghXcjffd gXceeijc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,9,5,8,14,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 00110 01011101 111111 1010011001 10010101 11000101001 101111 100101000 0001010101 0100011101 100110011101 00110001 1111011101 11010011 111001 1101 1101011001 1100011011 01010000101 11010 00010100001 111100 1101 0111 00110101001 1101010101 1101001 011101001010 1101000101 100101 00101001 10111101001 11011111 111001 0101010101 1011 01110100 1111 1011011 111101 1101001 1100111 11110101 111111 01110011101 1111101111 11110101 1101010001 0010001 01010101 11011001 11011110001 0111010111 110101 11011101001 010101 1001001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 315
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines death is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase thee connects the lines.
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