This is an analysis of the poem Coming that begins with:
When the snow is on the earth
Birds and waters cease their mirth;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdX ccXd eeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 1110111 10110010 100111110 1011111 1010001 11111010 10101010 0010101 1111101 10111010 10111010 1110111 0110101 00111110 101001010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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