This is an analysis of the poem Street In Agrigentum that begins with:

There is still the wind that I remember
firing the manes of horses, racing,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabc Xd XecbXdaeXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010111010 1000101010 100101 0111110011 10101010100 1010011000101 01001101 1011011 11011011110 101001111 1101101111 0111110101 1100101010 01110 001001 111010111 00100100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 227
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that is repeated.

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