This is an analysis of the poem Columbus Cheney that begins with:

This weeping willow!
Why do you not plant a few...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXAXXXXXXA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01011 1111101 1010010111 11111 11110101101 011 11110111 1000100010010 10010101101001 101011111110 11111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 363
  • Average number of words per stanza: 70
  • Amount of lines: 11
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

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