This is an analysis of the poem A Sonnet For Stanley Tookie Williams that begins with:
All month this country has careened toward cold
and winter's celebrations: what a star...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab caca dede ff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 11010101011 1101010101 0101110101 0101111001 0111100101 1010111001 1101110111 1101010101 1001010011 1101010101 1110101011 1101010011 1100011001 1010110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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