This is an analysis of the poem Tho' I Get Home How Late—how Late that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aabcddcb eeccc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 1 11111111 11111101 10000100 11110101 11010111 11110101 01010100 10010100 011101001 11110101 01011101 11010101 100010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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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