This is an analysis of the poem Searching For Pittsburgh that begins with:
The fox pushes softly, blindly through me at night,
between the liver and the stomach. Comes to the heart ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabXXXcXXdcXbXeaXebXdffbbb Xf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011010101111 0101010101001 1101010111010 10001010011001 110101101010 010101110000 011100010000 01010111100100 11100101110001 11110100110001 1010101011 101100111010 10101101010 100101010010 1101001010100 1111101011101 010011101111010 1001010110110 0101010111110 110101100111 10110010010000100 0111111001101 010101110101110 011010101001 011100101010110 1101011011101 010001011100111 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 748
- Average number of words per stanza: 121
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (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; and is repeated.
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