This is an analysis of the poem Passing The Night At Headquarters that begins with:
Clear autumn at headquarters,
wu-tung trees cold beside the well;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXaXXXc aacb aXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110 10011110101 110101001010 10110010 110111011 111011 100110011 111 01011010 111110 001101100 10100100 110101010 10011110 111100101 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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