This is an analysis of the poem Metro North that begins with:

Over the terminal,
        the arms and chest...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abc def XXX gbh Xhh hhi acg gij kah ble mhk XXh lll gkc hlm khh hdc fhg kbXlhn iMl bbX kgb hgb bcl dkb bfe kXb gop oXc fgk lcn Xch bka bbX lbb gcc leX eci kff fhi naf fkb oMf ibX ebn ggb bfb ngb kkb ecg clX jkl chn hci hkh kpb ogb kkb gfl eXl hhdXegf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,6,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100100 0111 001 1011 100100 10010 10100 1101010 101000 11010 1010 01100 11000 11010 10110 11101 10011 0100 01 11001 01110 101100 10010010 1011 01011 10111 1011 110101 10110 01010 101 0110101 001 1100 110 11 01101 0111010 11001 1011 10101100 10101 100100100 10011 1111 01001010 1101 0110 10011010 001011 110101 1010 1101 101110 001011 100101 100000 1010 11011 00111 1010 1101 111110 1111 110101 10110 0110110 111101 1010 10101 00100 101000100 00111 1010110 01001 1100101 100111 1010 0101 01010 010100 11010 0111 11011 1011 01101 10101001 100010 01010010 1101 110 001000 1010 1101001 11110 0101 01001 1101101 0110 11100 101010 1111 010010 10101001 00101 111 011 1010010 11010 1101 1101 0110010 101010 01101 010100 1111 111 01001 1100010 011010 0100110 01101 0101 101011 10100 010 110010 11001 01101 11 1101 01010 010101 0101 101 111000010 1111 1101 11010 1010 1001 110100 010010 111 1111 111101 011111 111101 010101 11111 111100 010 10100 111110 110100 0101011 1101 1110 11011 001101 101101 110101 1101 1101 1110 0101 10100 110100 1110 101001 111 011 1110 100010 10100101 1101 00111 0110100 10010 00011 01110 111110 111101 1100 101011 100101 01010 00110 01010
  • Amount of stanzas: 62
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 85
  • Average number of words per stanza: 11
  • Amount of lines: 189
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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.

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  • summary of Metro North;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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