This is an analysis of the poem Harlem Wine that begins with:
This is not water running here,
These thick rebellious streams... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab caca dede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00110101 110101 11011111 110101 00011111 110111 10110101 110001 10111101 010101 01000101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 12
- 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.
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