This is an analysis of the poem January 31 (The Sky Is Crumbling...) that begins with:
The sky is crumbling into millions of paper dots
the wind blows in my face...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXXbbXXccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010000100101 011011 111001100101 1100010110010 0100101011 1111011101 100010001011 1101111001 11010011010 10011001110 101010110110 101111111011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 528
- Average number of words per stanza: 100
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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