This is an analysis of the poem White Ash that begins with:

THERE is a woman on Michigan Boulevard keeps a parrot and goldfish and two white mice.
She used to keep a houseful of girls in kimonos and three...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXXXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010110010110101111111 1101010010010111001011 11001001011111111111001 01001011010101111001101110 010110010110010100110011 0100111111011011101001000101 11001100101110110011 100011100100101111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 765
  • Average number of words per stanza: 146
  • Amount of lines: 8
  • Average number of symbols per line: 95 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 18
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, on, of, love, burns are repeated.

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

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