This is an analysis of the poem Poker Star that begins with:
It’s a star that looks
like a poker game above ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00111 1010101 010010 101 111110 111100 100111 010110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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