This is an analysis of the poem We Talked As Girls Do that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XXXX XXXX aaXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 111110 11100 11010111000110100 011100 110100110 110000000 1101010 0110000 11010101 11100000 11010101 100000000 1100011 010101 110110100 010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 100
  • Average number of words per stanza: 15
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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