This is an analysis of the poem Late Comers that begins with:
Oft on my way, my daily task pursuing,
Meet I two fairy figures face to face,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcbc dXda
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101010 1111010101 1011111110 1111010011 10110111010 10110001101 10111111010 1111110111 10111111010 1111011110 11011100110 1001010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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