This is an analysis of the poem Cities Vagabonds that begins with:

These are cities!
And this is the people for whom these ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabX baca deXd dXad ddXa adbXf daag aXX Xaad ehac acXbghbai fiXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,5,4,3,4,4,9,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110 100010111 1000110001101 10011101111010010 1101010111 10011100001 100010100 000101001010 1101010101 101001010010 11011000 1010101 11100101 10101100 001010101101 0101110101 001001010 0101001 1100100 10101010 01010001010 01101001001010 110010101 1110111010 111101010 101 10010 111110 1101100 01001011011001 11110010111 1110010 10000101 101111 101001 0011110 100100100100010 100100110110 001110 11101010101 010101010 10010110010001 1111010100001 00101010 1101010 010011 1010100101 011010001110010 0010011101 10111010 00101110 11110 1110
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 53
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.

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