This is an analysis of the poem Pointing Their Fingers that begins with:
One day...
And not too distant from the future, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XAbbcd AbbdXeb cX fbg ghXdXX efciib XX hXbibccfX XbXX Xg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,2,3,6,6,2,9,4,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 111100010 101011 00100101 111101 00101010001 111100010 1001110110 110 0111101001 01011010 11001101 0011100110 1111011011 110011 1010 100111000110 110111010000 1110 11 111 0111111010 110101000100 110 11010 11010 011001001010 1001 1011101001 01011 10 11111 1 101101 1111010 1111101 011010 1011110110 1110010 110110100 011110001 1 00101 0100101011 1111 1 111101001
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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