This is an analysis of the poem I Prayed, At First, A Little Girl that begins with:
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- Rhyme scheme: X XXaX bcdX cdXbX XcXc aXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,5,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11110101 0111110 11110101 11110010 01011101 111101 11110101 0101000 11111101 110011 11010 0101 0010000 1101010 110110 01011111 011111 1111010 111101 0111010100 11001010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 106
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 22
- 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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