This is an analysis of the poem Herba Santa that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcXcdd Xeeffff aaaaXge XXdeed XedXd gffX cfff eeeee afffhehe afiXbiXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,7,6,5,4,4,5,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 10111101 11010101 101101 110101010 0101001 01111101 11110011 1 11110101 01110101 110101001 101101 1100100101 111101 10010101 010111001 010010101 11010101 01110101110 11111100 01 1 01010111 1101001 011000111 01000101 010111 1 11011101 10110101 11110101 11110001 10011101 10011111 10100101 01011110 01011001 11011101 11011101 11100101 1010111001 11010001 11011001 10010101 010101 1 01011101 11010101 1001 01011111 010001 11011101 111101 1 101110110 10 01011101 01 11011100010 010101000101 01
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 62
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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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