This is an analysis of the poem On My Wedding-Day that begins with:

Here's a happy new year! but with reason
I beg you'll permit me to say... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaX X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010111010 11101101 1110010010 111111001 101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 79
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 6
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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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