This is an analysis of the poem Delayed Till She Had Ceased To Know that begins with:
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Delayed till she had ceased to know—... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: X XXXXXX XaXbbX aXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 011111010 01100101 0101010 1100101010 1011110110 110101 111110110 11010001 1101010 11011101 11100101 010101 10110100 10011100 00010010 100110001 111100010 100001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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