This is an analysis of the poem In The Greenest Of Our Valleys that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXbcdcd Xcecebaba XfgfghXhc Xhdhdfhfh aijijfbfb afaffkdkd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 00100110 1010100 1111010 10010101 00111010 011 10101010 1010111 1 101010010 1010111 01010010 1101 1100101110 0111 0101110110 0110101 1 100011010 11100101 1010100 0010111 10101110 1000 010101010 01000111 1 110111010 101101 111101010 1100101 010101110 1101 010001010 01110011 1 110101010 01011101 111111010 11011100 110101010 1111 010101010 001101 1 1100101110 10110101 11110100 00010100 110101010 1011 0100111010 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 352
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 54
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, flowing, of are repeated.

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