This is an analysis of the poem Emptying Town that begins with:
I want to erase your footprints
from my walls. Each pillow...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXb XXb XX cbX a dXe a cbae ad cXd X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,2,3,1,3,1,4,2,3,1,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001111 011110 01011010 101101110010 0010110 00110111 1100101111100 11111111 1011010101 101110011101 10101100 1011110110 11001 01101110110 011100001 01111000100 1101110111 010011 10100010 01111101 111110 010101101 0001011011 110010111001 011101001 110111011
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 84
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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