This is an analysis of the poem Sit Down, Sad Soul that begins with:
SIT down, sad soul, and count
The moments flying: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccb dedeffe fefegge
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 01010 110101 111110 110101 111111 11010 111111 11110 010111 01010 111011 110111 01010 111101 11110 111111 01010 111101 111101 11110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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