This is an analysis of the poem There comes a warning like a spy that begins with:
There comes a warning like a spy
A shorter breath of Day... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 010101 01010101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 4
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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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