This is an analysis of the poem No Man Can Compass A Despair that begins with:
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No Man can compass a Despair—... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XaXa XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 111100100 110101 11010111 0100100 1100010 110101 01010100 110001 1101010 11001100 01000010 1101100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 88
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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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