This is an analysis of the poem A Weight With Needles On The Pounds that begins with:

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A Weight with Needles on the pounds—... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 010101010 01111000 100101010 010000010 11010101 01010100 11011100 1100000100
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 99
  • Average number of words per stanza: 15
  • Amount of lines: 9
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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