This is an analysis of Six O'Clock by Trumbull Stickney.

Now burst above the city's cold twilight
The piercing whistles and the tower-clocks:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbXabbacdcdcd
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1101010111 0101010101 1101010101 0101110110 11001010101 1001010101 0111010111 1111010001 0101010111 01010011101 0011111101 0011111111 0101110101 1101111101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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