This is an analysis of the poem After Lunch that begins with:
After eating lunch, I feel so sleepy.
Waking later, I sip two bowls of tea,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX aa bX Xb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111110 1010111101 110111001 0101001101 101001101 1111011 010111110 11110011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 73
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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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