This is an analysis of the poem The Cricket Sang, that begins with:
The cricket sang,
And set the sun,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaaa bbbb cccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101 1101 11010111 110101 01110001 01111101 01010111 011011 01010101 01001111 011100011 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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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