This is an analysis of the poem Walking Down Park that begins with:

walking down park
amsterdam ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXaXacdaeXad XXcdafXfgedceh ijjXfkfac ebljXhbk jdgcegi jflgmXlfXXmjk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,14,9,8,7,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011 101 101011101 011011 01011101 0110101 111 0111 11001 011101 0101 1101 01 01101010 111101 110 000111 0101 110001 111101000 10101 010111 101011110 01110101 1011 0011 111 1011 1011111 1111 11101000 101 110110100 10010 10101011 0011010 10011011 1100111010 11 0110001 1111010 111111 1101 1000 10101 111111 01101 10011101 0101010 11101101 01 10111010 10111111001 110 001000101 0101001010010100 11011101 111111000110 01010100101010010 01010011011100 1010100 1100 10
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 237
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 63
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, stock, so are repeated.

    The author used the same word ever at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines see is repeated).

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