This is an analysis of the poem At An Old Drawer that begins with:
Before this scarf was faded,
What hours of mirth it knew; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcaca adXdaeae fefeafaf agaghihi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101110 1100101 1100010 010101 0101010 011101 1111010 110101 0101010 110001 0111110 011101 1101010 011101 1101110 111101 0101110 010111 1101010 110001 1110010 010101 1100010 010111 1011110 110101 1011110 1101101 1101110 110101 1111010 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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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