This is an analysis of the poem 1951 that begins with:
Alone at night
in the wet city...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab ac dd ef aa ga Xg hb Xi hi ic Xh Xa ee jfXja
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111 00110 0101 011000 0111 1011 110100 010110 010100 1001 1110 001010 10101 01110 1010 110110 1010 1110 01001 1001 0101 0101 10101 01011 00111 10010 010010 01001 00101 10100 10011 001
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 36
- Average number of words per stanza: 7
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 18 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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