This is an analysis of the poem Skyline Tommy that begins with:
He loves all games that good men play-
And plays them clean and straight- ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXbdbdaXabbXbXccccbab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111011 110111 1101010 010101 11011001 111101 01011101 010101 1111011 1000110 11110111 111101 11010101 111101 11110111 010101 1101110 010011 0101010 110101 1111010 010101 01010101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 734
- Average number of words per stanza: 136
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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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