This is an analysis of the poem Someone Is Harshly Coughing As Before that begins with:

Someone is harshly coughing on the next floor,
Sudden excitement catching the flesh of his throat:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcacdXd cadeea beXeea aXeabea
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,6,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11010101011 100101001001 10011 101101 11011101010 01010001001 010011101010 101110010111 1001111101 10010000111 1101011011 101100100101 10001010100101 101100100101 01010111011 0101110101 01011101 01010011001 01010110101 111101100111 0101110101 110101 0100101 101101100101 0101 110101 001010000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 287
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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