This is an analysis of the poem The Sun And Moon Must Make Their Haste that begins with:

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The Sun and Moon must make their haste—... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXaX XbaX XbXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic trimeter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1 0111111100 010101 10010101 01010100 010001110 011111 11010100 1111100 11110 1101 1101010 01010101 0100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 97
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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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