This is an analysis of the poem Falling that begins with:

A 29-year-old stewardess fell ... to her death tonight when she was swept through an emergency door that suddenly sprang open ... The body ... was...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a b cadcefd gahiajabj kablhhjlfghcffmnhhbfndffajcacahbjhbnljhhachmhiahdbolX hcahbcXakeihe cajfhfapgiXhbchgqbbabgjhcfaXihbicnhdaXaa fhghdo ljkbqfbcbcffeajohkimakbkpbcebkhelaifhcjf Xcabbajf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,7,9,53,13,40,6,40,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 011110010010111111101001110011001011110100100 111 01111111110111 010110101110111001 1101110101011010 11001011011010100 1101110010010001 01110010101100110 10101010011010011111 0110010100110101 1100100111101010101 0010100110100100010 11111001111001011 11100100101101001 1101110111111010 01010101111001110 01010111100100111 01101010011000100010 01010111001010100100 10110101010010111 101001001000101001 00101011101100101 001010110001100110 100101011110111010 111010011101011100 01011110100101101 00111011100001011 011011111001111011 10100111111010010 001010110011111011 011101010110111 11000001000100111 111010101001000101 0101001010110101 0101011010010011110 110011011101100010 001111010101001010 011011011101011000 11010011001001001011 1010101111101 1111011110010001 1111001111001011 110110100010011 11010010111011100 1010110101100011 111111010111101 01010010110111 0110011100111011 11011000010011101010 00111001010110101 11110010011010 11010010101001110 00101000111010010 101100101111001 00101010001101001 10011101011100 000101010010110110 1101011011011010 1011110001000101 1010100110010110101 10101111011101101010 01110101101001111 11110101111011010 101110100101111 10101010110111 001100111000100 11111001011010011 101001010011011001 111101011010011 01011011111011 0010111101010011 0001010101001010 1001010101001101 10101010110111 00100010101001110010 10100101011111010 01011110010111101 01010110101001110000 10011100010010110 1110101010101010010 1101111010111111 010110111111 100110110110111010 1111000110111010 11010010011010001011 1001101001010111 110111101110111010 11111011101011010 1011101001001010 11010111001101101 011101000100011001 10111010101011101 1001010110101011 01101111111101 10010011100101010 01111001000101110 101101001100111 00111110010101101 011010100110111110 101101010101101101 010101101001011001 1100101010010110 0111011001010111 1010110111101011 110010100100101 0011011011011101 011101111001010 010101111010010 01001001010101111 0101001101010101 0111101001001101 01100010010111101 01101010111010101011 0111101101101010 100100101001010 01101011001000001011 111010001011010010 0101100100100011 11111011010010110 10010101011101101 101100101111010 0010110011011010 0010101100010100 101010001011110101 001010110001001 10110100101101010 101101000011010101 0011110011010010 00111010010111001 1011110101101 01001011101010101111000100110001001 101001101010011010 111110100101010 01101010111010001 11000110010110010001 1101011111011 1010111101100101 010111010010010101 011111011001110 011001101111001 01011101110001 0010101100101011001 1010000 1111001 001111101000100010 010110100010111101 001011001100011110 1110110100010001010 1101001110101111 1111110001101011 101010010110101110 110110110110101010 0101110010111010001 100001010010111110 1010101011010011 10100110111101101 010110110100110111 10011111111011 11010011011001 001011010010110010 01110101011010 111110101100110 10101011111001000 10010111101010100101 011110000110111 0011100101111011 10100101001010 011110100010101011 0011110101010100 1010010010110101 100100110101111 01110111101101 11001001110010110 01011010101010011 01010000100111101 101110111011110 111111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1214
  • Average number of words per stanza: 223
  • Amount of lines: 183
  • Average number of symbols per line: 65 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; when, in, and, she, her, of, more, can, its, watching, to, it, remembers, from, with, not, all, on are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words still, of, the, her are repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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