This is an analysis of the poem Summer Evening: New York Subway-Station that begins with:
Perspiring violence derides
The pathetic collapse of dirt....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacdceXfafaadecbbfcXeXbbgfXcbg Xb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 31,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010001 00100101 11000010 0101011010 01010111 10101001 0101001010 0110001 1101010 101011 1010010 011010 100011011 10010101010 0110101 01010010 10010101101 010010001 010110111010 10011001 0010100 1110010 010101 011010011101 01111100 1110101 1111010 1110100 010110001 01011001 010111 110101111 101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 530
- Average number of words per stanza: 89
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, her are repeated.
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