This is an analysis of the poem Rhymes From A Suburb that begins with:

When smoke into aether went,
And dust along the highway whirled...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abababccccccdedede
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100101 11010111 01000101 11010101 11111101 01000101 11011101 11010101 110111001 11111110 11010101 11110001 11110111 01110101 11010101 11011101 01011101 01110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 646
  • Average number of words per stanza: 122
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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