This is an analysis of the poem Straw that begins with:
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When you are trying to sleep, Solominka,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X Xabc XXXX defX bgDX XXac X cXgc gDbf XeXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11110011000 01010111110 1010111010011 010101011111 1001001101000 111111101 010111001101 10101001000 01000100101100 1010001010 01010001010001 10100100011 1001100001010 0011010110 11111001010 101111001 100101101 1001100001 1110001010 11111001 1 111111 011000101000 0001010110 100100111 10010101010 11111001010 1110000010 100010101 011101010 11011000100 11100001010 11110111001
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.
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