This is an analysis of the poem To The Superior Animal that begins with:
To sum up all, I'm old -- and that's
A fact the years decide;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab bcbc dede dede fgfg bhbh iiii Xhih
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110111 010001 00010101 110101 10110011 110111 10110101 110101 01111101 010101 10111111 110001 10110101 111101 11010111 110111 01011101 0100101 11011111 010101 01111101 011111 01011110 110101 11100101 010101 11011001 010001 11110101 110101 11011111 011001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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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