This is an analysis of the poem Nor The Sun Its Selling Power that begins with:
They say her words were like balloons
with strings I could not hold,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb aXca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 011111 101110001 1111101 101111010 10101010 011110 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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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