This is an analysis of the poem White Cockatoos that begins with:

Now the autumn maize is growing,
Now the corn-cob fills, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababacaXabaXXbab dedeafaf XdadbcbX adaXXcdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101010 10111 10101010 10101 10101110 10101 10101010 11101 11101010 10101 11101110 1001100 10011100 10101 11111010 10101 11101010 10111 10111010 10100 101110010 10111 10101010 10101 11101010 1000101 10101010 10001 10101010 10101 10111010 101110 11101010 10101 101101110 11100 11111110 10101 10011110 111000
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 293
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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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