This is an analysis of the poem Band Concert that begins with:
Band concert public square Nebraska city. Flowing and circling dresses, summer-white dresses. Faces, flesh tints flung like sprays of cherry...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X X X X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101010101100101011010111110101011011101000101000100101 111110111101010101110101010101100100101110101010111010011010 10110011111011011000111101001000110100101101010101101010100101 0111001110100110101111010110111101110010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 225
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 4
- Average number of symbols per line: 225 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 37
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, dresses, gigglers, knows, in, god, white, summer are repeated.
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