This is an analysis of the poem Filling Station that begins with:
Oh, but it is dirty!
--this little filling station,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdXe afgaXba befXXha cXiaXch fXaeXi afagiXXgd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,7,7,6,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010 0101010 1111010 00010101 11000 010011 101010 11101 1111001 11001110 1101011 001001010 1110010 1110010 010011 0101110 010111 0110100 101010 0101110 110101 0101010 0101011 0101110 100100 100101 0101010 1001001 10100 111010 0100101 0100011 1100101 110010010 1101001 11010110 0100101 111101 10111 0111001 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, why, somebody, so are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, why, somebody are repeated.
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