This is an analysis of the poem What Care The Dead, For Chanticleer that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XXXX abXX XXXX aXXX XbXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 110111000 110111 1111111100 1101000010 11110 110101 01010101 1100110 1101110 010111 1101011100 11110100 1111001 0101110 0100000011 10001010 1101110 01110100 1100101010 1101001 01000001000 010001 110101010 11000010
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • 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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