This is an analysis of the poem Mugging (I) that begins with:
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Tonite I walked out of my red apartment door on East tenth street’s dusk— ...
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcbdaefggfXaaeeXfhXXdXbbXagXiibcifchXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 01111011010111111 1101110110110101 01110111101101010 11011010011010011000101 1011011111101101 110100101011010101010111 10110111001111111011010101 01111101011101110101011 1011111111101010101101 1011010010101011010 100101011001000011011 11010101001011 111001010101100101010 11111010110101111010111 1001110101100010100111 1011110110101011110 1111101110101010110 1001010100011101110 01110111011111011 111111111101010111111 100110101000111010100111001010110110 1011101100100010101 1101001011101011010101 10101010101110111101 110110110010111 111111101101 11100101000101101110101 1101011010101111100110110101011011001111110110100101010010010 111101010111 101110101111110011101010010 1111110 1111110010011101011 1111101010101010111011011110110101 11111011111010 101011111101011110 111110110101101010111010101011011101111011100111101 111111011111 1110011101011111101 0101111101011010100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3558
- Average number of words per stanza: 622
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 88 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 16
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; walked, out, my, past, om, card, ah, h, m, on, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words past, thinking, dragged are repeated.
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