This is an analysis of the poem ETA that begins with:

Her neon sign blared two Harlem blocks.
In Aunt Grindle's...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbaCdeece fgf XXheXdXcicjX kalaXeaXlalX mnnXXd aXopafldld fjffjqj nfnrfehehXXnfokflehjXX oojXljX coaccllX llslltatbXbnl glbpfgXjilliaCllttlborqaqcnslX liflacagoloXX pfffffoffpXeseX tntf poo ojsjXjiXjjn nonljXlX khcfcn iXilatjnXnjnnfbfXagoalo alaapapXpjtp
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,3,12,12,6,10,7,22,7,8,13,30,13,15,4,3,11,8,6,23,13,11,14,20,9,13,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 010111101 0110 011001 0100010000011 111 0101001010 11101111110 11101101110 010010111 111110 110 00001000100110 1100110100101 01110100101100 101010 01010 0010100 1011101101010 101 0010010001 1 11010001111 1 11001000101 11010101110 011111011101 1001111 100010110011 0100001 10100100101 1010100010100 1110101 110001 000100101010 10110011101010 101011001 010 10001010100011 1010110010010 1001101010 11110111110 10101101 0010101 10011001 1000100100 1110101 1001 10010101 0100100101 10101101 101101 01101 010111 1100100100110 101011 110110111 01011010101 0100100100101 11011 1101100101 01110110101010 10011011 01011010 0 10110011011 1101010011100 001010010 00101100 101010 010100011000000 010011000 11011101 10101 1101 11101011010 111 111 1101000100 010 10 01001010 1010011100 0010010101 100010101 11111 01001100 1110111011 111110010111 111000 010011011001 110110110101 1000001010100101 010101 011001101 00101 0101 01011000 11101 0100101000 010010000110 010011 010101 1011 0111111 11 01 1011110 101101 0101 00100110001 0 111 00011001 111 0010110010101 10 1011 111011001 100101001 10010100101 10101001001 1110010110011 011 111 01101011001 11001011111 0110111111 101101011101 0100101101 10101000101 10011101 010101 0010111101 1101010001 11011101001 10101 1111100101 11010010 100111001 101001110 01010010111 00111011001 10101 1 010010100101 10010001010101 01010001 1010011101010 1101001010 1111001 1010010010 100010010 10101000 0110010111 1110101 01000100110 11010101 1010101101 101110111 00101 101001001011 110111010101 101010101 11011101 11100100 1101010 11100100 0100110 010011101 11010010 101100010101 100100 001001011 0101010101 0111101011111 0100101100111 1100010001 0101010 101 1001110 01001 10110101 010010100010111 11101010101 1001 11010000100101 1001011101101 010110100110011 1111111010100 0101100 1101 110100100 1101001010 100111101011110 10110 01010010 101 0010 000101 001010010101 1001110101 1010 101 01 110110101 1011111 011 11100010 111011 1111111 110111000 0011101011 010010110 101010 110010100101 1101010 0100111010100 1100101001 01010 0011 010010001 111 01001 1000101 001101010 10001001101 1 0111010010101 1 110010101 111110 10100010001 110100111 10111 11010101101 11110 01000011 1010100100 010111001 11110001 011 1101110011 1000101 010101 111 111 1011000101 0101001010101 110110100 1001001 1010 1001 100010010 00111100010101 101 1001011 010100011 11001001 01010101001 01001 001001 1001 00100 1011010 1 00101 100100 00100010 1010011 1101011010 1010110100 1011 01010 1101101 10101 01001 0001 0110001101011 1010100010 01 11110110 10010 10010 101001111000 111 0100001010101 001101 1101001110100 111110 10110100101 1101 001100101 110111001 110011001 0110100110101 1111101 001000010 1010100 00110100 101100 111011110101 1101 011101010101011 110100 10010 101010100010 101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 27
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 359
  • Average number of words per stanza: 64
  • Amount of lines: 307
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; come, back, and, of, rid, his, down, i, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words come, mr, since, to, the, that are repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines one is repeated).

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  • summary of ETA;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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