This is an analysis of the poem What Did They Do Since I Saw Them? that begins with:
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What did They do since I saw Them?... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: X abab Xcdc Xcbe cdeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 10111110 010100 11010010 110100 1111110 111101 1101110 111101 10110010 100101 0001110 100100 1001011 110001 1101110 0111010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 87
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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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