This is an analysis of the poem Clowns' Houses that begins with:
BENEATH the flat and paper sky
The sun, a demon's eye, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd cccc bbaa eeff ggah eeXe eegg ffgg eeii hhbbXeeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 010101 11011101 110111 11011001 010111 01010111 10101001 01010001 1010101 110010101 011111 11010101 11001001 110100111 110101 01110101 110101 11010001 0100111 11111101 110111 11011111 100100 01011111 111101 11011100 111111 11011100 011111 11101111 110111 1101011 010101 11010101 110111 11110101 111101 01110101 1100011 11010100 110100 01011111 111111 01111101 111100 11010101 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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 is repeated.
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