This is an analysis of the poem And Yet The Books that begins with:

And yet the books will be there on the shelves, separate beings,
That appeared once, still wet ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXXdacXXXXbXdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110100110110110 101111 110101001010 11100101 01010100101011 110110010 1111101110 0101110101 101110111100 111111 110100100100 10100111111 101011010110 10101011010010 10100110111 0101011001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 744
  • Average number of words per stanza: 132
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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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