This is an analysis of the poem Discerning Mr. Murphy that begins with:
Discerning Mr. Murphy sees
The dangers of the foolish plan... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdee ffffaaaagg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 01000101 0101001 11010101 01001101 11010111 11010101 11011101 01010101 01010101 11011101 01010101 0111011 010101001 01011101 11110101 01111101 11010100 11011101 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 323
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 20
- 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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