This is an analysis of the poem Burning The Old Year that begins with:
Letters swallow themselves in seconds.
Notes friends tied to the doorknob, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXaX XaaX XXa aXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 101001010 1110010 0101010 10111 1001 1101010100 101001010 1010101 110001 1111011001 1101101101 10101001010 111001011 1001111 10100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of is repeated.
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