This is an analysis of the poem Doubting Heart that begins with:
WHERE are the swallows fled?
Frozen and dead, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabCdddb eefCgggf ddhCeeehXccbCcccb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 1011 0101111101 1101 110101 110101 010101 0100110111 110101 1011 0011100111 1101 110101 011101 110111 0111011101 011101 1101 0101010101 1101 010111 101101 1110101 1101000101 110111 0101 1111010001 1101 110101 111111 101101 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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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