This is an analysis of the poem At The San Francisco Airport that begins with:
This is the terminal: the light
Gives perfect vision, false and hard; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababa cacac dcdcd efefe gfgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00010001 10110111 01010111 11110001 11010001 11110111 100110101 11111101 11010111 11011101 11110111 01010100 01001101 010001001 01111111 01010011 01110001 11101001 01111101 11010100 00010001 01011101 11011111 11010111 01110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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