This is an analysis of the poem The City Planners that begins with:
Cruising these residential Sunday
streets in dry August sunlight:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXcaXddaef XXggbabbfb Xee cbb bbXec Xbd Xb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,10,3,3,5,3,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101011 1011011 10110 0100 01000101010 1010101 1000101001 0010111 11011 100110101 101001001010 10011000101 1101110 110100 1101001101 01100100011 101 0101101 1010000010 010111010101 010110010 110011100110 11010110 01101110 01010010 10101101 01000011100110 111111100 10101010 000110001000100 110101000 1010010110 10011010 1001011 101011011010 1010011001 10010010 100011001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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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