This is an analysis of the poem Family Reunion that begins with:
Outside in the street I hear
A car door slam; voices coming near;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcddceeff gbgbXddhiiee hhXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100111 011110101 0010101 11110101 01110101 0101 0101 01101101 01010101 01110001 110101010 010101010 1111101 010111001 010100 110111 01011100 0101 11110101 111101 0101 10101010101 0101010101 11100101 10101010101 01010111 011111 11110100 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 299
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 29
- 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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