This is an analysis of the poem These Are The Days When Birds Come Back that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXa XXa XXb XXb XXc Xac
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,3,3,3,3,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 110111110 0101001110 010101 110111101 01001000100 011101 111101010 11110100 010101 110111010 11010101 100101 11000101 1101000100 010101 1101001000 11010101 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 83
  • Average number of words per stanza: 14
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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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