This is an analysis of the poem Two that begins with:
The steam hammer pounds with a regularity on steel I should envy.
Neither the hammer nor the steel seems to be suffering from this...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011010010100111110 1001010110010000 1001001010101010 1111010100111000 1100100101101010001 110010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 351
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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