This is an analysis of the poem The Dying Need But Little, Dear,-- that begins with:
The dying need but little, dear,--
A glass of water's all,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa XbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 010101 01010101 010101 01010101 110011 1100011 011111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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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