This is an analysis of the poem Ladies that begins with:
Agathas
Four and forty lovers had Agathas in the old days,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXc daaXX XdedbXX cdfeXXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100 11101011000011 101101 111101101 10110010 110 11111010 110111110 111100111111 101110011 1010 1110110 110101011 01100100 0110 0010110 10100101000 10 1011010 100100 10 011001100 11110101000111 011101111110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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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