This is an analysis of the poem Poem About People that begins with:

The jaunty crop-haired graying
Women in grocery stores, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcb dXXb efdg gbbb ddbX fhih XcXa edXh bjXb agiX kicg bgjgXdkag
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101110 1001001 111011 1101110 111111 1011110 11011101 1011011 1111110 11110101 100101100 0110110 01001100 100110 0101110 111011 1001010 101101 1111011 110010011 001010010001 10110011 0001110 010011010 101101 10110010 111111 100111110 1110111110 0101111 010010101 11011010 1001000101 001010101 001010100 11010101 10010010 10010101001 010111010 01010011 111111 11111010 1000101 10111001 0101010 01110101 10010 001011 1011010 1011111 11001110 0110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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