This is an analysis of the poem In Sailortown that begins with:
They don't sell no flash gear in Sailortown -
In Sailortown -...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaababcaXaccdc XXaaeecXaXXXXf XXaaggdahaiicdXXhfafcici
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,14,24,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110100 0100 1011 1011 1010100 1111101 010001 100011 11101 11010 11011 11111 111110 10111 001100 1111110100 0100 1011 1011 1010101 11101100101 10111 10110 1010110 101110 10110 011110 11111 1011110 1111110100 0100 011 0011 1011101 1010010010101 0010110 11011 10110 110111 1010111 0010111 11011101 10101 11110 110111 1101110 011010 0111 1111010 101111 111101 110110 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 491
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, of are repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines sailortown, shops are repeated).
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