This is an analysis of the poem Although I Put Away His Life that begins with:

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Although I put away his life—... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X Xaba XXXX XXXX XXXX XcXXX XXXX bcdX dXdc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1111010100 110011 11011101 011001 1101011000 110101 110100010 11010100 11010100 110111 11000100 1101110 01010100 0101110 1101110000 0101010 0101000 010001 1101100 110100 1111010 11010100 01001100 0101010010 01011100 01011101 110101 11110101 0111010 1111110 0101010 01010100 1111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • 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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