This is an analysis of the poem For A Coming Extinction that begins with:
Gray whale
Now that we are sinding you to The End...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaBcd aeddcXaX XfceXaf gegefcfffBe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,7,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 1111101001 111 11 111101010010 10110 111111101 11110 11110110 01010 11110110111 1001 111101 10101 0010000101110 100111010 0111 11011 10010010 1 11 1101101 0111001 010110100110 101 0110110010 0001001110 1101011 11010 11101 11 100111010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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