This is an analysis of the poem The Shadow People that begins with:
Old lame Bridget doesn't hear
Fairy music in the grass...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccdcXedefXfXgghghfhff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 1010001 1010101 1011101 1011111 1000101 1010101 1010111 1010100 1000111 10011101 0111101 1110101 100111010 1100111 1010001 1110001 1010101 10101010 10101101 10101010 1010101 10101010 1110111 10011100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 749
- Average number of words per stanza: 137
- Amount of lines: 25
- 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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