This is an analysis of the poem Driving A Cardboard Automobile Without A License that begins with:

Driving a cardboard automobile without a license
      at the turn of the century...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabXcXXaXccXb XaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10011100101010 10100100 110100110 101111010 10111010 00110111 1100101111 1111110100 110000 0100110 101110 010100111 100010010 1110011 010100 1010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 337
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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