This is an analysis of the poem If Ever The Lid Gets Off My Head that begins with:
If ever the lid gets off my head
And lets the brain away... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010011111 110101 010011101 010101 1010010101 011101 001001101 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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