This is an analysis of the poem The Things You Can'T Forget that begins with:
They ain't much, seen from day to day-
The big elm tree across the way,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddaA aabbeebbff gghhffccaA iiaajjkkaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 01110101 01110101 111100101 11010101 11011001 11110101 11011101 11011111 01011101 01011101 11011111 10010101 11010101 11011101 01010101 11010111 101101001 111101001 11111101 11111101 11010101 01010101 01110101 110100111 10110101 11010111 10110101 101100101 01011101 1111101 11110101 10111101 01011111 11110110 11000101 10010101 1111110001 1110111 01110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 345
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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