This is an analysis of the poem The Wind Begun To Knead The Grass that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X a XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXBXXXX a cXXd Xebe cXXX XXaB edXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,20,1,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 110 011001010 1101010 110111010 0111010 0110001010 1101100 010101110 1101010 01000001010 01010010 010101010 1101010 011101010 0101010 111101010 111001 1101001010 0101010 1101110100 1100010 1010 01100101 01001110 110101010 010101 0110001010 110101 01010111 110101 01010101 0101010 01010101 110101 011101010 0101010 11110101 111001 11011101 010101 1101110100 1100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 43
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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