This is an analysis of the poem The Return From Town that begins with:
As I sat down by Saddle Stream
To bathe my dusty feet there,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa XXX XXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 0111011 01110101 101111 11110101 01110101 101110 1011111100 11000110 01011101 1101011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 109
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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