This is an analysis of the poem The Malay—took The Pearl that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aabb XXcc ddXdd eeff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,5,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 010101 1101 110111 100001 101110 100100 010101 111101 100111 110101 1101010 111101 0101 010101 1101 011001 01011
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 74
  • Average number of words per stanza: 16
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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