This is an analysis of the poem Percy Bysshe Shelley that begins with:

My father who owned the wagon-shop
And grew rich shoeing horses...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXbXacdddcdXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 110110101 111110 1100101000101 11101011 10010110 10111 1101010011 1001001 101111111 10101100100101 1110100010 11101010 110100111 010101000110 1111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 538
  • Average number of words per stanza: 99
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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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  • summary of Percy Bysshe Shelley;
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