This is an analysis of the poem Nagasaki Days that begins with:
I -- A Pleasant Afternoon
for Michael Brownstein and Dick Gallup...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a X bcdebefgXhgdeeca X i Xfi hie gaaj h ihe X f gkgiebe dibece leX X i XjX XXke X j kXllkdia X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,16,1,1,3,3,4,1,3,1,1,7,6,3,1,1,3,4,1,1,8,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 110111110 111101111100111 1010010 100011000101101010 11010101 10101010101111 110 10101101010010 101001000101 111000101100101 110010100101 101011001000100010 1011110100110 10110 1111010101101101 1101001011010110 11100101011011 111 1101 100110111 10011111010100 1110011 101010011 10100101 10100110110100 1001011010101 00100101 11011010110110 11 11011 101011010 10010001 0010010001 1011 11010100 1111101 1100100 11001011 110101011 10100 100111100 101010 101010110 01010 0101001 10101 11011110 10 1101101 10010111 0010 1011 11011010101001 101010110011000 010001101000101 1 0110110111 10010100100 110111101001 10 1011 1100111 110011 1110010101 1010100001101 101010011 11100100 10111011010010 11010011 10101 101
- Amount of stanzas: 26
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 83
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; einstein, 000, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word 24 is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word waters at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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