This is an analysis of the poem Little Willie that begins with:

When Willie was a little boy,
No more than five or six, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababacXcadadeceC Xfbfgcgc dfdfacaC hahadcdc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010101 111111 11001001 010001 11010111 111011 01110100 010101 10110101 110101 11111100 010101 1010101 111101 11110111 110101 11011101 1101001 10110101 110101 11111101 110101 11010101 110001 11110111 110101 11010001 111101 11111111 010101 11111100 110101 11111101 111101 110010101 110101 11111101 010101 11010111 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 318
  • Average number of words per stanza: 58
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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