This is an analysis of the poem An Extraordinary Morning that begins with:

Two young men—you just might call them boys—
waiting for the Woodward streetcar to get...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXXXXaXccadcXXebXdXXbXcXbecX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111101 1010111101 0111110110 1011010011 10011110111 1110111100 001111010 111010101 0011011010 11100110 0101110111 10110111 1010110110 0101101011 011111001 0101101001 00100100111 1101110110 10100111101 111110011 10010111110 0101111001 1100110101010 011101110 10010101011 1010110011 01111111 101011110 011010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1208
  • Average number of words per stanza: 238
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, he, and are repeated.

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  • summary of An Extraordinary Morning;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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