This is an analysis of the poem Stretching Taut The Silken Threads that begins with:
Stretching taut the silken threads
On a mother-of-pearl shuttle,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbb aXcd Xcad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 10100110 111001 1101010 111011 010010 1111100 110101 1111 10110 11110011 111100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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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