This is an analysis of the poem When They Are Roused that begins with:
Try to guard them, poet
However few they are that can be held....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXabX XXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010 1101111101 0100101010 101100110 101010 1111011 1110011 01001 111 111111 1111111111 1111111 1111111 1111111 11111111 111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 835
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 103 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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