This is an analysis of the poem Retrospect And Forecast that begins with:
Turn round, O Life, and know with eyes aghast
The Breast that fed thee-Death, disguiseless, stern:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cXXXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111110101 01111110001 10101110111 0101110111 1111110111 11110010101 101001101101 1111110101 10111001001 0101001000 1101010001 11010010110 100011101000 11001110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 306
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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