This is an analysis of the poem Chanson Américaine that begins with:
If I, as I drive the Caravan
with its nagging blister of rust...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXX XXbcab cdXef efdf aX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,5,4,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011110101 00101001 101011 10010101 011001101 0101111 111001110 10000110 01010101 11111 10111010 101011 010111 1110111 11100110 0010110 110101 101000 0100100 111010 111111 1110011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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