This is an analysis of the poem Against Listening To Slanderers that begins with:
Like the blueflies buzzing round,
And on the fences lighting,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbb cbcbaa dXdXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 1101010 1010101 1101110 11101001 0011101 1010101 01010010 1010001 1100110 1111101 1010101 11111001 0101010 11100101 0110010 1010111 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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