This is an analysis of the poem Outside Fargo, North Dakota that begins with:
Along the sprawled body of the derailed Great Northern freight car,
I strike a match slowly and lift it slowly....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaX bbX bXXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010110000111011 11011011010 11 011110110 11010110 001011 10001110 0111010011 11010 1111101010 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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