This is an analysis of the poem Wild Dreams Of A New Beginning that begins with:

There's a breathless hush on the freeway tonight
Beyond the ledges of concrete...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbbbcXXXXXbXdceXaXdcaXaXbXXXfcXfbddeabbXXbccfXcb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 51,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101101101 01010010 1011001 010110 11010011 001011 111 100111 01010110 11100100100 00100101101010 0101110 11101011 1010101 101100 1010010111 00101 11101010 10101 101101 10010101011 10 11001011 11000110010111 110101010010 100 01110011 1010001011100 0101010111 1100110101 1110101010 11010 111010111100 1001101010 01110101010 110111010 1110101 111010100 01011011 110101100011 100101100110 101010101 10111110 010110110010 10010011 011100010100 01010110010 01010110 0100100 1010100010 110001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1689
  • Average number of words per stanza: 282
  • Amount of lines: 51
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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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  • summary of Wild Dreams Of A New Beginning;
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  • history of its creation;
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