This is an analysis of the poem The Main Regret that begins with:
[Written for the Charing Cross Album]
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X X abab X caca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,4,1,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010110 1 1111010011110010 1101011111001 1011001011010010 1010011011001 1 1111101011011110 1001011011011 10011010011010110 10011011101101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 102
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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