This is an analysis of the poem A Poem About Miracles that begins with:
Why don't the records go blank
the instant the singer dies?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXcdbXeXbcadXeXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100111 0100101 111111010 111011 0101 1110110 11100 1010100 0110111 1001001 0101101 110101 11101 1010100 11111 00101111 100101 01110110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 465
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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