This is an analysis of the poem Jacques Bonhomme Complains of the Useless Stars that begins with:
I see on high the Milky Way,
But here's a rougher road....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaaa bcbc XdXd X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 110101 01010101 111111 010100001 101111 01010101 111111 11010101 111101 11110101 111111 01000011011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 104
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 13
- 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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