This is an analysis of the poem Having Lost My Sons, I Confront The Wreckage Of The Moon: Christmas, 1960 that begins with:
After dark
Near the South Dakota border,...
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdX XdXX ec dd aeedd bbdd eXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,2,2,5,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101 10101010 010110101 010010 110111 0010 0101 011010 00110 11 1111 111 1001101 1110 111 001111 100101 1011110101 01001010 0110 11001010 010 0011 1101101 10 111100100110 00100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 81
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 20 (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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