This is an analysis of the poem Canary that begins with:
Billie Holiday's burned voice
had as many shadows as lights,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXa aXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1010111 11101111 01010100101010 00100100101101 11101001 1011010 1110110 0110111001 100010010101 100101001001 0110100100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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