This is an analysis of the poem The Birds Begun At Four O'Clock that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XaXa XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 011011100 1100110 0101001100 1100110 11111100 110001 11110101 010101 1100010 01010010 0101001000 0101010 11011000 1111000 11010100 0100110 11011100 110110 010110000 11011100 0101010 0101010 01001101 010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 104
  • Average number of words per stanza: 16
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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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