This is an analysis of the poem In Search Of The Young Wizard that begins with:

I have invited our little seamstress to take her thread and needle and sew our two mouths together. I have asked the village blacksmith to forge... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010110100101110111110101110101101101011100101110101100010101101101101101101010111111010010111001010011110010100111010101100011101011011000101001010010101011111011111111111111100010001011101011010101110101001001001011110011000111010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 910
  • Average number of words per stanza: 176
  • Amount of lines: 1
  • Average number of symbols per line: 910 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 176
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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