This is an analysis of the poem A Meeting In Copenhagen that begins with:

We are sitting at an airport
in Copenhagen drinking a lot of coffee....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXdeeefaefdXXbaXXXegbfXXacXXadgXheeheX X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101111 010101001010 011100111000 1010010100 1100101111 001110001 01111111 1110101 11100101010 101101001 1101101 10001001 01010001010 111010011 111010101 1100101000100 110100110001 10100011001 100101010101 11101000111 011111110 011101010 010100001110 1111 110111 01101011 1100011010 1101101001 11010101011 0101110111 001001001 11010101 11111110 1010 111010001 11011101 1010 10111 1011 0101101 0101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 785
  • Average number of words per stanza: 130
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, strode are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.

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