This is an analysis of the poem Places that begins with:
Some people collect
Stamps and old masters,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXXbbbbXaaac cXdX aXaeeab bddafafagag ffdadbbcXXaabbaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,4,7,11,16,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001 11110 111010 10110 110110110 1010 11011001 11101011 110 110111110 1111 1 1100101 10 1010 11 01101 1 01 101 11101 1000 11111111 0101101 10 111110 0100 10101110100 1110011010001 1001100101100 11101100110001 100 111001110010010 01101011 11010110111010 0111111010110111 11001110 110 01001010010 111 0010100101010010 10101010 1010110111010 10110101010 10010101000 01101 111011111 111011111 11011101 111101101 111101 111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 386
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, them, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, or are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines in, them, get are repeated).
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