This is an analysis of the poem I Had Some Things That I Called Mine that begins with:

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I had some things that I called mine—... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XaXX XbXb acXc 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 1111111100 111110 11000101 011100 0100110 110101 1101010 110101 0100010 010100 1100100 111100 1101110000 1100010 111100 101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 92
  • Average number of words per stanza: 14
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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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