This is an analysis of the poem After Hearing Robin Hood that begins with:
The songs of Sherwood Forest
Are lilac-sweet and clear; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb XaXa XXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101110 111111 010101001 110111 1011010 111101 010000111 1100011 1101110 010101 11110110 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 12
- 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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