This is an analysis of the poem Whose Are The Little Beds, I Asked that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XaXa bXcd XXXX XXXX cXXb XXdc XXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 11010111 100101 1111110100 111101 01101111 1001100 11010101 110101 11000100 0101010 1001001010 10100 11011100 101110 10001010 110101 1111010 0101110 10010101 110101 110010 0101010 1001010 110001 110001000 1111110 0101010 110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 107
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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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