This is an analysis of the poem Onion Days that begins with:

Mrs. Gabrielle Giovannitti comes along Peoria Street
every morning at nine o'clock ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbabXabcdbbaefgdbcbbbbhXcidjXXjiXefXbihbdgd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10100100010101001 100101101 010111100101 1010101011011 010011001010001 101100100101 0100001010 1110010111010 110101001 1101111110010 1001010001 11101001101 1011110111 1111110110010 10001010110 101101010110 10111010110100 0100101 100101010010101 111011 1011001010010 111011011000 001001110001110 110001101111 1100110100 1011101110111 110010110111 101110011011010 1 100101000010100011 01000111001000 11 1111101010111 101000100010111 11010 111001001010110 10011011111 1010 1100101010110101 0101100001 11111001011110 100100000010110 111100110010100 11010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2014
  • Average number of words per stanza: 359
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, his, and are repeated.

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