This is an analysis of the poem Justice Denied In Massachusetts that begins with:

Let us abandon then our gardens and go home
And sit in the sitting-room...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbXca adXXddeb efbXbXee bXXcaec gdfXagf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,7,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110101110111 1100101 10111010111001 1000101 00111001 10011111101110 10 11101011010100 11111100101 1011 1011101011101 1010011 1001001 10110110001 100101 00101 0101 1011110101 10101001 1001100 0111110111001 1000 1111001 1110101010001 100101 1101001 101001101011 1101101110 101101 011101 1110110 111111 1001010111 10101101111 10011010010011 101 1010101 00101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 38
  • 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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