This is an analysis of the poem Memories Of West Street And Lepke that begins with:

Only teaching on Tuesdays, book-worming
in pajamas fresh from the washer each morning,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXbaXXccd XXefbbXd dffXgggXfbfbfbge XaXXXhXhibbjXjidda
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,8,16,18,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010111110 001010010110 11011110 10010010010 11001 10010011011 11100110010 1010110000 1101110 101001110 101110001010101 11010001000 1111011001110 1101010101 1111010 10101110111 110100011 0101010100 01010001 1001 111010011101 010111101 1101010101 1101000100 11010100 101100101000100 01010101010 111100 110100 1111101101 11010111 010110010 10100010 101010101 1111111111 1111011101 00010100 1010101101010 1001101001 1110100010 110101101 010010000011 11010101 11010010101011 0110000101 0100101010110100 1101000100101 10110000 11000101 1110001010 101010100101 1011010001 01010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 511
  • Average number of words per stanza: 86
  • Amount of lines: 53
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.

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