This is an analysis of the poem Thinking For Berky that begins with:
In the late night listening from bed
I have joined the ambulance or the patrol...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaa bXcb dbXd eadeXacca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 001110001 11101001001 10011100101 110111101001 0100101011010 10110101110 1111011101 101010111 1001110101 011011011101 0100101101101 1010110111101 1011011111 111011010111 1111101110111 111110110111 1101101101001 100111001001 10111101010011 1001011110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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.
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