This is an analysis of the poem It Would Have Starved A Gnat that begins with:

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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 0111010 0111110 111101010 010100 01100010 111101 111101100 110100000 11010010 010001 110101100 110010010 111001 010101 011101010 11100000
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 100
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • 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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