This is an analysis of the poem Alaska that begins with:
The phone rang in the middle of the Fairbanks night and was always a
wrong number for the Klondike Lounge. Not here, I'd say sleepily. Different...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXbabXcacXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 01100100010111110 110101111111100100 1101010110111101 1001100101101101010 10011010110101011 11100010101011100 1001011010111011 11010111101010101010 10010001110101011010 10010111001110100010 01010010100011011100 0111010011101011100010001 10100110011101101110 111110010111001011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1005
- Average number of words per stanza: 179
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 71 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to are repeated.
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