This is an analysis of the poem People Getting Divorced that begins with:

People getting divorced
riding around with their clothes in the car ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdefgceXdeafaXhhgXgbha
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101001 1001011001 1100110 01011101 010110 101 10111 111110 0010 0110 101011010 001010 101 011001 10101 100 101 101 0100010 10111 0101 0011 101 1011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1161
  • Average number of words per stanza: 87
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of People Getting Divorced;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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