This is an analysis of the poem 'Twas Like A Maelstrom, With A Notch that begins with:
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- Rhyme scheme: X aXXX aXbXX XXcX XXcX XcbX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,5,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11010001 1101001 11000101 010100 11000101 01010010 1111 110100 1110010 1001000100 1100010 0111110 1100010 11010000001 1111010 11000000001 11110000 10110100000 110101 01010001 0101010 11011111 010110000 11010100000 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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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