This is an analysis of the poem Sitting On The Stoop Down The Block that begins with:
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXaXcX bdbbad cXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001 0111001 1110100011 1111000011 1 11100010 11110 1101010 11000011 011101101 11110 1110010 0111001 111110111 111110 101101 1111011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we is repeated.
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