This is an analysis of the poem The Sins Of Kalamazoo that begins with:

THE SINS of Kalamazoo are neither scarlet nor crimson.
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  • Rhyme scheme: a X a b Xcdefefgc XXhai j f g k c gXkiX hXdXXXg kfkf Xgk gfclkXmX fcaXX XXmkdhekl mjkebfb Xffikh Haeg HefclkXgkkcf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,9,5,1,1,1,1,1,5,7,4,3,8,5,9,7,6,4,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010100111010110 01010011010101001 101011010100111010110 1101111100111011011111110 11001001101 10100111 10100111 1010011101001 10111110011 10100100010 10010011 1001110100101001 11010110100111111 11111010001 110010100 1010101 10101110 1001011110111001111011101001 1001100101011 10011001010001001010001010100 110111000101001 111111011111101 1111011010111101010101 11101001 10010001001000100 111111110 1101111101011 11110111001011 111100101 11111110100 111010101110111101 1010111011011110110 1111100111011101101010010 1000011111110101 1111101101111000111001 0110001111010 1101001101011001 111001111001011001 101010001 110100111111 10101001101101001 100111010101 11100111001 01101101101 110100111111 101011001010100100 10111011 1011010101110101 10111010101010111 10101010 01010111 111011 11110010111010 1111101011110111 0101101010010010 11110010110 101010101000110 1110110100101 10100111101010 11010101 1101101001 10110101001001 1101101101 111000100101010100100101110 101010011 100111001110 11101001010 0111010001 1100111100 0111010011110 111101111110 1001101010100 10010111 1110101101 1011101 1111100101110111 101110101011001101 101 11111010111 110101010111 11100111011111 101 11101110111 11101001010 10101101 11101110101010 1101011111101 010101111001 111111011 111101111 110110110111101 110111000101000100101001010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4912
  • Average number of words per stanza: 915
  • Amount of lines: 114
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, night, i, hear, to, we're, for, they, bye, lo are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, do, i are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

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