This is an analysis of the poem The Animals are Leaving that begins with:

One by one, like guests at a late party
They shake our hands and step into the dark: ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXX bbXX baXXX XXaXXX bXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,5,6,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111110110 1111110001 0100101111010010 11111100111 110111010001 10110010110101 11101001011111 1111111 11011110100 10110111010110 10010010101110 11011011101 111110101011111 111011011010 11011101010 10010010110 101011001001010 101010110011000100 1111100011110 1101111111 010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (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; one is repeated.

    The author used the same word one at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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