This is an analysis of the poem How Fortunate The Man With None that begins with:

From the play 'Mother Courage'
You saw sagacious Solomon...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X ababaaCAcA cbdbdaCAcA efgfgaCAcAXgefefaCAcA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,10,10,21,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00110100 11100100 111101 01010011 1101011101 11110111 11111100 01110011 11011101 0101111001 11000101 11010101 111101 11011001 11110101 11110101 11111111 01110011 11011101 0101111011 11000101 11010101 011101 110110111 0101010111 11010101 1101010101 01110011 11011101 0100111011 11000101 111101001 100111 11110101 11111111 10011101 11001110 01110011 11011101 0101111011 11000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 280
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 41
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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