This is an analysis of the poem The Boobook Owl that begins with:
Not for any airs and graces
When, to lonely, silent places... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbaaccdX bbeebbaabbdX ffggaaffbbdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101110 10101010 1010100 1110101 11101110 10101110 1011001 1110111 10001010 10111010 00101101 10011110 10101010 101001010 1110011 01000101 10101010 001010010 10011101 1011101 10101110 10100110 1010101 11001110 10111010 10101110 1111101 0010101 10101010 10001110 10100010 11101010 10101110 10111110 1010101 11111110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 376
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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