This is an analysis of the poem Sitting Outside that begins with:
These lawn chairs and the chaise lounge
of bulky redwood were purchased for my father ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabXccdeddddXXfadXbfbeaXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111011 010110101110 10001111001 1110111111 110111011 00111111111 1010101111 1101101 11011111 0111100010 11011101 111110100010 1101010111 01111110100 1110111011 1111001111 101110001 01110101 1111111 10110101 101111110111 01001101011 1101100011 11001111101 0011111100010 01111111011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1186
- Average number of words per stanza: 221
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; i is repeated.
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