This is an analysis of the poem I Know Where Wells Grow—droughtless Wells that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aaba Xccc XbXb XXdd cece
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 11111101 111101 11011101 110101 01010101 01011 110100111 110101 01110011 010111 01010111 111111 11011101 110101100 01110001 011101 11010101 110111 11010111 100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 100
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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