This is an analysis of the poem On The Plaza that begins with:
One August day I sat beside
A café window open wide... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddaaeeffeghhiijjkkllmmlleennkknnegllbbllllbg biioollk l liippqqbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 50,8,1,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 0110101 010101101 10010101 01010101 11011001 11010111 110100101 01111101 010010101 11011111 01110101 110111110 110001010 01011111 10010100 10011101 01110001 11010111 101100001 01110101 10010001 11110101 10010101 11010111 11010001 00010111 11011101 10010001 11010001 10010101 010011011 11101101 01111111 11110101 10111101 01010101 01110101 11010111 110011100 11010100 110001101 11000111 011111001 01111111 10010111 01010101 010101011 01011101 011100 11 01000110 110010111 01010101 11010101 11110001 11010101 110100 01 01010011 01111111 01110100 01010001 11011101 10101111 11110101 11110111 01010011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 569
- Average number of words per stanza: 104
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, and are repeated.
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