This is an analysis of the poem It Knew No Medicine that begins with:
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It knew no Medicine—... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XXXX XXXX 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 01110000 01110000 110101000 1100000110 0101010 01010100 1101000000 100101 010101 11010100 110101100 1100000100 0100100 10000010 1100000100 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 101
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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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