This is an analysis of the poem Symbols that begins with:
PALM Sunday at the Vatican
They celebrate with palms;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a ba bc dc da dX d e eeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,2,2,2,2,1,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110100 110101 010011101 110101 11011101 010101 11010101 010111 01111111 110111 110101110 011101 10110101 0111110 01011101 1101010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 49
- Average number of words per stanza: 9
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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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