This is an analysis of the poem Free Round Trip Tickets that begins with:

Those in search and seeking explanations,
For hints or clues as to what is going on today....

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXcdXee X adbfeaX afXee aXXcXgfXcdgffe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,1,7,5,14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011101010 1111101010101 101011 11110 011000101 01000011 11001000010 0100 11110100101 11110 111111101 111101 100111 1101000100 110101101 111101 111011101 01 11111010101 110 110 1110011010 10010101111 110 111101100 10101111 110 100110101 01 10110101 10100111 1001001010010 011011 10101001000100
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.

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