This is an analysis of the poem A Something In A Summer's Day that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aaa XXX bbX ccX XbX XXX XXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,3,3,3,3,3,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 01000101 11010101 110001 010001010 0100100001000 010100 11010101 01010101 1111010 11110101 1101000001 1011110 010101010 01010101 1101010 110101010 11010101 0101010 11010101 0101010 11110101 010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 92
  • Average number of words per stanza: 15
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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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