This is an analysis of the poem Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that begins with:
I looked toward the movie, the common dream,
The he and she in close-ups, nearer than life, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aba bcb XcX dd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010100101 01110111011 1101011111 0101010001 01101001010 010110001001 11001101010 01001001110 1011011111 11100111001 11101100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 11
- 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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