This is an analysis of the poem In the Village that begins with:
I
I came up out of the subway and there were...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abXXcdcdcefefggf X hihijijjkkkkXljlj X fXfbakaakeaebmeemlml X X jnlnmgmgmlXljejej
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,16,1,17,1,20,1,1,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11110011110 10101011011 10110010011 11001111101101 11011100111 011010110101 0101011110011 0111111101011 00101010101111 0100110010010 01110101010011 10110101110 1111010101101001 01100101010010 01110110101101 1011011111 1 101001100011 000100100101 011001010101 010010101010 11000100101001 00010010010010 001010010 1011000111101 1100101001110 1111110001010 100010010010010 11110110001 01010101011110 10010010001110 10100110101 0111111010 10111111010 1 11010110011 11110010010010 01000111101 1010011111111 101001100110 01111100100 10101101010 10111101110 10101110101 1101001001010 0111100010 111111111110 101011001101 01110010101 1101111110 1010010010010 0011111111 0101010010111 101010101010101 0111000111011 1 0111 0110001010 011001100101 1100111101 01110001001101 10010000101 111001011001010 1110110110101 0010010100110001 1111010111001 11001110010 111101001001 1011011011 0101010100101 10011110110 001110111001 1111110010 011101001010001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 377
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 75
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, to, that, no, in, of, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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