This is an analysis of the poem A Poem For The End Of The Century that begins with:

When everything was fine
And the notion of sin had vanished...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdde ededfga XhidXi cjeaga dejabk ahchlX aXlX ambikjXb fdegiiefXmblhadac
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,6,6,6,6,4,8,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111 101001110 101110 010101 001101 01110100 110110 010101 01011010 0010010 11110 10100 1011110011 101111 10110 100001 11101110 01101111 0101011 011100 111011 100110 10011 100110 011010 11100 1100010 101001 1001011 00011 1101 00101 111101 11110100 10101010 1101011 111110 1010100101 1010100 110011 1111110 01111 010111 011101 0010001 010101 110111 1101010 011001 111010 01101 110111 0101110 101101 010101 001110 0101010 1001010 0100100 100111 01001110 101010 100110 1001101 0100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 65
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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