This is an analysis of the poem Accountability that begins with:
Cold nights outside the taverns in Wyoming
pickups and big semis lounge idling, letting their ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdbaed cXfXegXgXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110100110 1111101100101 101111010101 1100111001011 11101001001011 1010101111101 110010101010 11011101011011 1001 100000110001101 011011001011010 1010101010010110 111111010110 110011010010101 1011011101010 111011101101 111001110010 10111111101 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 471
- Average number of words per stanza: 81
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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