This is an analysis of the poem The Day Lady Died that begins with:
It is 12:20 in New York a Friday
three days after Bastille day, yes...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXXc bcaXXdXXXXXXX bdXdbe XedX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,13,6,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001011011 11101011 0011111011 011011010100 111111010 11110101011 111010101001 110100101011 1101110011010 01011011 111001 111101110111 10101111011001 10010101101010 1100101101111 101001100101 1010111010111000 01011111010 101000100101000 11111100011 1011110100101 1111111001101 10100000101001 10001101001001010 010001011100110 1111001111100 1010110011 11100101011 0110110111110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 332
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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