This is an analysis of the poem The Story, Around The Corner that begins with:
is not turning the way you thought
it would turn, gently, in a little spiral loop, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXbXcaXXdeXedacadcXdbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01100111 011100010101 0101101001 111011 010101 1010101101 1101001 00111001 110101010010 10111001 11101010110 10100101010 1001100101 0101110110 110101101010 01111011010100 101001110 101001 101111 101110101 011101110010 01000011001001 111001010111 11110101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 945
- Average number of words per stanza: 180
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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