This is an analysis of the poem She could not live upon the Past that begins with:
She could not live upon the Past
The Present did not know her... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110101 0010110 11110111 1101010 01011101 1101110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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