This is an analysis of the poem Bowery Afternoon that begins with:
Drab discoloration
Of faces, façades, pawn-shops,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXab XaXabc aXa cX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,3,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010 0101011 10110 101111011 100101 1010100 01110 010101 101110 101 1000101 1111010 10101101000 1011001 10101010 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 103
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
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