This is an analysis of the poem Had I Not This, Or This, I Said that begins with:
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- Rhyme scheme: X aXXX aXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11101011 010011 010010000 1000000100 10111110001 01001000 101111000 110010010 11001110010 01011000 01010000000 010001100 1100000100 01000100 0101010000 10001000
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; need is repeated.
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