This is an analysis of the poem When Someone Says: "Alexandria" that begins with:
When someone says: "Alexandria,"
I see the white walls of a house,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXa XXbXa XXbbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111100000 11011001 0110101000 11010111 110100101 1111100000 111010110 10100110 01010100100 11100010101 1111100000 1101101101011 01000101 101110111 111101 111100000
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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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