This is an analysis of the poem Dora Williams that begins with:

When Reuben Pantier ran away and threw me
I went to Springfield. There I met a lush,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabccXbXbXXbbXXXdaXXXdXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010101111 1101111101 11010111010 11011111110 0111111111 11111110011 10011100110 11101101110 11011101010 1111101111 11010110010 1111010111 01010111010 010010100111 1101010110 01010111010 01010101010 111111001010 1111000100100 1101110111 10010101010 0111010111 1111010001000 100100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1039
  • Average number of words per stanza: 188
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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