This is an analysis of the poem The Pigeons Of St. Marks that begins with:
Something's wrong in Pigeon-land;
'Tisn't as it used to be,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbabXa cdcdXX ececcc fafaggXAfafffff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 110100 1010101 1010101 111001010 1010001 11111110 10101010 10101010 11101010 11101010 10111010 1110101 1100110 1111111 10001010 11101110 11101010 111111 1110101 1010001 1110111 10101010 1010111 1010101 1111101 1000101 1110101 1110101 1010101 1111101 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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