This is an analysis of the poem January In New York that begins with:
Black ship of night
sailing through the world...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXcaa dcXeeXedfaacebg dhXXbgXaaffhb gbdaaXaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,15,13,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 10101 011101 10001 01011 100 100 111111 1101 1010011 101101 001 11010 011010 1001 11001110 01101 11 10111 100101 001001 101001 10101 101001 100110100 100011010 1101111 001001011 0101 10011 1101011 1100 100010 100011 01 0101001 1111 101010 110101010 0101101 1011 101 100110 100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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