This is an analysis of the poem Old-Fashioned Requited Love that begins with:
I HAVE ransacked the encyclopedias
And slid my fingers among topics and titles...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aab bX XXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110010100 111100110110 1011 101011 1100110 11101010100110100 101000101100110101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 318
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 10
- 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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