This is an analysis of the poem She Dealt Her Pretty Words Like Blades that begins with:

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She dealt her pretty words like Blades—... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XXXX XaXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1101011100 11001100 1100110001 110000100 11010010 10011100 010100010 1101010 01010001000 010101 10001100 1101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 103
  • Average number of words per stanza: 16
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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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