This is an analysis of the poem Picnic Boat that begins with:
Sunday night and the park policemen tell each other it
is dark as a stack of black cats on Lake Michigan. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXbXXaXbcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101011100 0110101111100 01111110011001 10100 1000101101100 1011101011011 10010110110110 0111010111 00111 100110111110 1100010100010 100101110110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 587
- Average number of words per stanza: 107
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
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