This is an analysis of the poem Surprise Party that begins with:
The turntable hacked up a melancholy blues
The air was heavy with dust and odors...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaba cXXX bac XXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 011011010101 0111001110 100101110011 11001001 0010110101010 010010110110101 0100010010010 1010010 1010101010111 111001011110 11011011011 10101101 101010000101 011010101011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Surprise Party;
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