This is an analysis of the poem Lying In A Hammock At William Duffy's Farm In Pine Island, Minnesota that begins with:
Over my head, I see the bronze butterfly,
Asleep on the black trunk,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaXbbbaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111101101 011011 101010111 1001010101 011101010 00010000101 011 0010110111 01001110 1100101 111101010111 01011101011 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 453
- Average number of words per stanza: 83
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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