This is an analysis of the poem Big Night On The Town that begins with:

drunk on the dark streets of some city,
it's night, you're lost, where's your ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXbcdeXafcgefedgXdghijjci aba aehbgeXjX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,3,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110110110 011111 1 110010110 101110 1110101 101011 1 00110101 11001001 1011101 1001 1111100 1110110 01011 01101 11110110 101010100 1111 100 111010 1101000010 0110 01100111 1101111 1101101 1011 111011 11010110 1 110101 110 01001100 11010 0100100 10 0100011 111 10
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 322
  • Average number of words per stanza: 62
  • Amount of lines: 39
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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