This is an analysis of the poem Real Estate News that begins with:

ARMOUR AVENUE was the name of this street and door signs on empty houses read 'The Silver Dollar,' 'Swede Annie' and the Christian names of madams...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010110100111111010111010110101010101110110 1101110101110111101011101110110100101 0101010010101110111101010100110010010001010101010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 538
  • Average number of words per stanza: 96
  • Amount of lines: 3
  • Average number of symbols per line: 179 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 32
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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