This is an analysis of the poem Delight Is As The Flight that begins with:

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Delight is as the flight—... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XaXXbbaaX XaXXXccXX XXaXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,9,9,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 0101010 10010100 101110 01010 01 110101 1111 0111 01000 100110 1101 1111 11110 1000 1111 11110101 1101 0100000 110100 1101000 1100001 1101010 11101110 11010 110000100 100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • history of its creation;
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