This is an analysis of the poem Hospital: Strange Lights that begins with:

I needed a friend but
I was in the other room —...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaaXXXbXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110011 1100101 110101 0101101 110111 01010001 01101010 0011101 0011100 11101101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 311
  • Average number of words per stanza: 58
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • 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.

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  • summary of Hospital: Strange Lights;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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