This is an analysis of the poem We Go Out Together In The Staring Town that begins with:

We go out together into the staring town
And buy cheese and bread and little jugs with...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXb XX XXb XaXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,3,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111010000101 1111111010 1010 1010011111110 1 011101001010 11111001101 1 1011111111 10010 110100010111 1010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 95
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

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