This is an analysis of the poem February Evening In New York that begins with:
As the stores close, a winter light
opens air to iris blue, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccddeeXXXdaabXedXXdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110101 1010101 101101 101010011 10101010100 11001 01011011 111010010 10101 1011010110 01001011001010 111011011 1101011111 011111001101 0011101111 10011111010 001000101 011001 0010111110 1001 100101110101 1111110101 010111011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 872
- Average number of words per stanza: 157
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, i are repeated.
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