This is an analysis of the poem Steel-Mills: South Chicago that begins with:
This red hush toppling over the sky,
Wanders one step toward the stars...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdefgheiefXXhggDCGJbbkjcglgbbmgjeakgXkbjlfbgdbbefnglekbjakknjgijgjihibbeXobboijjgbcIebjbiegehlgeXmXbjcIbXgbkjkXXgXbjknbXegcXbkhbjkjcgeXfejfgbXjlkbbjcbcglggDCGJ
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 161,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111001001 10110101 110010010 0111011110 010100001 11011101 0111010111 11011100 11110101 1100111101 0101011101 100010111 1011101010 1 00101111110 0101110101 110101101 00010100010 011101011010 110011111 01001101010 0101011 111011 11110100111 11010100101 110101010 10110100101 0101000101 11111111 1000010101 1101010101 0100011101 01110101 11010101 1111110111 010111 1101010010 1010101 1101010001 01011101 01110111 1111110100 110101001 1000101 010100110011 1111111001 010100101 111001110 0101010101 1011001 1101010101 1011110100 101000101 110100001 1100010101 1001011101 111110111 01010100 1101100101 0110010100 1010101010 01010100100 1010101 111101101 01110101 11010100 1011000110 1101110101 1101010001 111001011 10100101 01010111010 10001001 1010101 1010101 11011101 1101010 1010100011 101000001 1101010101 01010101 01010001010 1101110100 11010101 11000101010 10100110 01101101 0101110111 100010 101010111 1100001010 0111000111 10111 1111101 11100110 101000101 1010111010 11111 001111010 1010100110 111101011 100100010 0011001 11000101010 10100110 1000110010 1 0111010101 101011011 10111110 0111011100 1101101010 0111100011 1100110 110101 11011101000 111101010 1000101 0101010100 1101011100 100011011 1 1110101 1010111 110101010 1010001 1000000101 1011100010 011010101 1000111 01010101 11010101 101011101 0111010100 0010001 01010101 011101010 101000101 101110101 1010101 1010101 1110001 1010011110 10101110 111011001 1101000101 1010101010 011010101 0111001 101010101 0101010 100110101 10100011010 1011110001 1101011101 10010100111 110101101 00010100010 011101011010 110011111 01001101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 5988
- Average number of words per stanza: 1052
- Amount of lines: 161
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; his, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, their, and, glances are repeated.
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