This is an analysis of the poem Better—than Music! For I—who Heard It that begins with:
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- Rhyme scheme: X abcb Xdad ceXX efef Xghg hcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1011011110 11100101 011001010 0111111 10111010 111100101 100100110 10011101 110111010 10010100 1001101010 10011111 100111010 10010101 1101010010 111100111 110101100 101111010 110101010 10010101 111101010 10110101 100111010 10010101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 25
- 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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