This is an analysis of the poem How M'Ginnis Went Missing that begins with:
Let us cease our idle chatter,
Let the tears bedew our cheek, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcdcd abab aeaefXfXgggg hihi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,12,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111010 1011011 10101000 1010101 10101010 1010101 11100010 0010001 10101110 1010101 111001010 1010001 11101010 1010111 10110010 1011001 10101110 1110101 1101010 10101100 10101111 1010101 10101011 11100001 10101010 1010101 1101010 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 221
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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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