This is an analysis of the poem Where It Was At Back Then that begins with:
Husband,
last night I dreamt...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaXb aXcadc adeXbe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10 1111 1111111 10 11001 1111001 10 1111 01111110 10 11101 110010010 10 1111 100111 1100 11111 0100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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