This is an analysis of the poem Zen & The Art Of Poetry that begins with:
Letting the mind go,
letting the pen, the breath,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdefXXXbecfbXecdea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011 100101 010010001 001 11110 101101 1110010010 1001 1001110 1010101 1001 00101001 0101 01001010 1011 011 1011 01111 11 110111 01
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 481
- Average number of words per stanza: 91
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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