This is an analysis of the poem Down Time's quaint stream that begins with:
Down Time's quaint stream
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXabXbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 0111 110101 11010 10101 1101 0101 110111 010100001 110001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 220
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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