This is an analysis of the poem Help In Need that begins with:
A poor man's horse it ran away,
Soon man upon the roadside lay,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd bbaa eedd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110101 11010111 00111010 01001110 11110111 10010111 01011101 01010011 1001101 010100101 01010101 01100101 10101010 101110110 01010111 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more 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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