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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