This is an analysis of the poem Marzo Pazzo that begins with:

Mad March, with the wind in his wings wide-spread,
Leaps from heaven, and the deep dawn's arch... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaB babXabaB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100100111 101010111 111001001 11 11111011 111101111 110100111 1011100111 1100110111 110110101 11
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 11
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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