This is an analysis of the poem Another Song Of A Fool that begins with:
This great purple butterfly,
In the prison of my hands,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa XbXb cdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110101 0010011 1010001 1011101 1110110 0010101 01010101 00111011 1010001 111111 1011111 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 12
- 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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