This is an analysis of the poem Hospital Window that begins with:
At gauzy dusk, thin haze like cigarette smoke
ribbons past Chrysler Building's silver fins ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccdefbXXXbeXXXbecgdfdbXafXcbfdcgggbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 38,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111011 1011010101 100100010001001 100101101011 11110001110010 10011110101001 111001010001010 11111011011111 01010001110010 101010101011101 1101111110101 101101001001011 100011101100111 1110111100101001 1101010010100 101101111101101 101110101010111 100111001111 10101010101 1101011111100 1101101101111 100101010111101 00100111110101 0010010101010011 1011100101 111010011111 11010100110010 1100101010110 10110101110010 1010101010111101 11110101010 1101010101011 1110010101 0111110110 11101011010101 1001100101 110101110011 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2052
- Average number of words per stanza: 322
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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