This is an analysis of the poem In Umbria that begins with:
Once upon a time I was sitting outside the cafe
watching twilight in Umbria when a girl came...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabbXXcccX Xb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101111011001 101101001011 10010000101010 1011101010010 1101111110010 11101100100 110111101010 01110011101 1011011011001 1101110111 0110011101 010111100110 0100010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 289
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of In Umbria;
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