This is an analysis of the poem After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes that begins with:
After great pain, a formal feeling comes--
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Toombs--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb cXXdd ccee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011010101 011100011 0111010111 1101110001 01010011 011111 0101 0101 01010101 0001001 010011 1101010101 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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