This is an analysis of the poem It Would Have Starved A Gnat that begins with:
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It would have starved a Gnat—... full text
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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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