This is an analysis of the poem Your Arms, In Faltering Crescendos that begins with:
Your arms, in faltering crescendos,
Wander through the room...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110100100 10101 100101001 01101001 111101 1001110001 01110011 1011101001 11101111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 325
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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