This is an analysis of the poem After Bank Holiday that begins with:
Now deserted are the roads
Where awhile the lovers went;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcc dedeXX afafcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 1010101 10101100 10101011 101 1010111 1110111 1110110 1010101 0011100 1010 1010111 1111101 001101 1100101 1011111 111 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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