This is an analysis of the poem November Fifth, Riverside Drive that begins with:

The sky a shock, the ginkgoes yellow fever,
I wear the day out walking. November, and still...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbac deXeffdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 01010101010 110111001011 1101110111 1010111001101 11010 011101011001 11101100100 111000101 1101010100 11001011111 1101010001 1101010011 11101111 1010110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 288
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of November Fifth, Riverside Drive;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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