This is an analysis of the poem Sidewalk Story that begins with:
The afternoon had a flu-like quality, gray and threatening to burst into tears at any moment, but I held it together like a grown-up, taught my...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a a X XX b cc X c ccXXX bXX dd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,2,1,2,1,1,5,3,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011011100111000100111010111001010111110110101101011011101110100010110100110111110111011111 011010110011010101010001111010011111 1011101011001001101011011010111001101011010111000010011100111000100110101010111100001011 010111111001 011000111111 11100110111010011101111110000101110100101010001001010011100101110111010101110100110010011100101010101010 101101 1101 010101101011001110111011110101101101100111111001001101100101010001011010100010000100110100001000111100111110 11010 1110 101 11111 10011101 111110101 11100100 01001010110 0100101011 101100111001 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 109 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 20
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, with, in, children, my, of, flu, like, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, as are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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