This is an analysis of the poem You Must Be New To This Neighborhood that begins with:
What's going on over there?
'The usual backstabbing....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XaX Xbc XX a XXddcbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,3,2,1,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101101 1100100 110 1111100 110 01101110 101101 1 111 11110 111001011 1 110011101110 110110101111 10111011101 11101101010 110100100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 80
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 17
- 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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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