This is an analysis of the poem To Anita that begins with:
high/yellow/black/girl
walken like the sun u be. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXXXaaXXbXXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10000 1010110 111010 11 11100 111 00101001 111010010 11001011 1101 01010 11000 10 110000 1100 1101 0101000
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 436
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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