This is an analysis of the poem Like Eyes That Looked On Wastes that begins with:
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- Rhyme scheme: X XaXX XXXX XXaX 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 11111100 010001 1100101000 0101110 11000010 1110110 110111100 11100010 1100110 01011100 0100010 1100001000 100001000 101001 01010000000 11000110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 106
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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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