This is an analysis of the poem Young In New Orleans that begins with:

starving there, sitting around the bars,
and at night walking the streets for...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abacadefffddghihjhkldekacXm enhkfheeo baj diogahf hdhapfXpXekgllia doheeh edhl fbXinXgkmlligkgfiioi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,9,3,7,16,6,4,20,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101100101 11110011 10 0111111 011001 10011011 010110101 10101010010 100011010 1011010 10011111 111111 110110 1 11001010 1 1110111 1010 01101 0101111 101010100 01 101110 111101 11 1100 1 100011 1110 01 11110 010101 11101 1011 11 10 11101 111 01 111001 1101 01011110 11111010 111010 10 01101 101011 011 10011 1 1011 1001 10010 01 10 1 11101 10010 1 1010 0 10 101 101010 0111 0110 11 101 110011 1 111101 11 1101 11 11 1 101 110 1 111 11 11 11 1010 100 010 1010 01010 1 110 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 91
  • Average number of symbols per line: 16 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 3
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, no are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, being, no are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines white, time are repeated).

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