This is an analysis of the poem Grizzly that begins with:
Coward of heroic size,
In whose lazy muscles lies ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabbccaacXX ccaaaabbddXXefefee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,18,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1000101 0110101 1111101 1010101 1100101 1011111 10011101 10011101 1011101 1010111 1010100 01101000 1110111 1111101 101010001 10111010 10101101 10111010 1011101 1001001 1111101 10101001 01110100 1011101 1110111 1110111 0010101 1110001 1111111 1011111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 484
- Average number of words per stanza: 79
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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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