This is an analysis of the poem A Quiet Poem that begins with:
When music is far enough away
the eyelid does not often move...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX aa bc dd Xa cX Xb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 110010101 01111101 110111100 011110010 010111001 0110101001 101000110 101000100101 101010101 1011110 1011001101 10110111 10011010 101101101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 70
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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