This is an analysis of the poem As By The Dead We Love To Sit that begins with:
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11011101 0111010 1101110 11011100 0101010 110011 10001010 0111001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 74
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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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