This is an analysis of the poem It Tossed—and Tossed that begins with:
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- Rhyme scheme: X aabb aXaa accc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 0111 01011110011 0111 11010011 0111 111101 0111 1101 1101 0111 01011111 0111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 77
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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