This is an analysis of the poem Goodbye To The Poetry Of Calcium that begins with:

Dark cypresses--
The world is uneasily happy;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXab XXcXbXXXacXddXadXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,18,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100 010010010 0010010 1011 100111110 01100100 1111 111 01101 1111000101110 110011001 110010010100 1001001110101 0111 1001101111 11100101110 1000101 01011111101 100111101011 1001110010 11110 11110110010011
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 357
  • Average number of words per stanza: 65
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

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