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This tree has two million and seventy-five thousand leaves.
Perhaps I missed a leaf or two but I do feel triumphant ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXcXaaXcbbXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01111011001101 011101111111010 11001001011111 111110010110 1001101011101 1010111111010110 101101110010101 1010011110 11010011101 0110011001011 1010111011 1111001111111 1110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 671
  • Average number of words per stanza: 125
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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