This is an analysis of the poem Of Silken Speech And Specious Shoe that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XabX bXXab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 01011101 010001 01000101 0101000 0101 0101 010101 010011001 010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 72
  • Average number of words per stanza: 13
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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