This is an analysis of the poem Flossie Cabanis that begins with:

From Bindle's opera house in the village
To Broadway is a great step....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXaaXXXXXXbbbcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101010010 0110011 111010101010 101001 1010100110010 1110010 0101010111 1111101010 11101011 101010010 111110 0101010 1111010 11111101010 01101 1111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 549
  • Average number of words per stanza: 99
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.

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