This is an analysis of the poem Waking At 3 A.M. that begins with:
Even in the cave of the night when you
wake and are free and lonely,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaabcdbX deXaa XdXbeXfcfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,5,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1000100111 1111110 010110010110 1110101001 111111 110111010 10010101 111011 11100010 11101010 01001101 0101111010 110110110 111011010 100111110 011011101 100111011 11111111 0111101101 11101011 010000100 10010100 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 265
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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