This is an analysis of the poem At The Justice Department November 15, 1969 that begins with:

Brown gas-fog, white
beneath the street lamps....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdeXfeXgbcXXXgXXfebhdgahXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111 01011 11111111 0110 10110 01100100 010111 110 1011010 10010 0010100100 100010011 100010101 10001111 010011000 101010010 01110010 0100010 0111 1011001 11111 1001010110 11010 11010 011 01010 111 10010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 768
  • Average number of words per stanza: 130
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of At The Justice Department November 15, 1969;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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