This is an analysis of the poem Dried Apples that begins with:
We fear to say, and yet we must,
Dried apples once were full of dust,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXXXXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 11010101 11110011 10100111 10111011 1111000 10100101 11110111 10101100 10001010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 325
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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