This is an analysis of the poem It Don'T Sound So Terrible—quite—as It Did that begins with:
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- Rhyme scheme: X XXaa XbbXX ccdb dede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,5,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 01111001100 110101001100 100101011 10111101 100101001 0101100 101 110011101 111101110 1010010111 1110101101 110111101 110110 0101 10100101 1110101 101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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