This is an analysis of the poem First Party At Ken Kesey's With Hell's Angels that begins with:

Cool black night thru redwoods
cars parked outside in shade...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXbXXcaaacXdadXXba X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111 111101 01011101 00101010101 1101101110 011010001 101010001 111010110 1110111010 101101101 1000010101 010100111010 11100111 101011011 110001011 1010000111 10101001111 11011111010 111010001 0101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 380
  • Average number of words per stanza: 66
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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