This is an analysis of the poem Detroit, Tomorrow that begins with:

Newspaper says the boy killed by someone,
don’t say who. I know the mother, waking, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbc deae fegf hihj ikaa lbhX cbbc ladb gekj kXXh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101011111 1111101010 1111001001 0110110101 1110101111 0110010111 0111011011 1110111101 1110101101 1101100101 0111001010 1110111101 0001101000 0111010100 1110111010 0111010110 10011110101 0101110111 1011110010 01111011010 1110011110 1001010110 1111011001 1010110011 111001101 1101101110 1101110101 1111111111 0111101011 11001010101 1110101011 0110001011 0110010010 01010011001 1110110111 0110110010 0010111101 01001101000 1111100111 0111111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; to is repeated.

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

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