This is an analysis of the poem Drapers Dummies that begins with:
What do they dream about standing there
In the windows facing the street?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccbb dedeaadX bfbfffcc gXgbhhii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101101 00101001 10100111 1110001 101100101 0010100101 111100111 111101001 10110111 0111001 11100100111 1010101 110110111 110010111 1100111011 1111001110 011110111 1010101 11010101 0101001 100101101 11100100101 111100101 0010100101 110110101 1101001 1100101011 1101101 110101111 0110101111 110101101 1111111001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 296
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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