This is an analysis of the poem The Suburban Classes that begins with:

There is far too much of the suburban classes
Spiritually not geographically speaking. They’re asses. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbcXddbbccddee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101110001010 10000110100010110 100010010101011 101011011001 1110111001 1000011011111 11011001010 1010011010110 100101111 01100100101 111110111 1100101101 101001101110 111001001010 1010011111010 1010011010010 1001001111 111011111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 859
  • Average number of words per stanza: 164
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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  • summary of The Suburban Classes;
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