This is an analysis of the poem For John Clare that begins with:

Kind of empty in the way it sees everything, the earth gets to its feet andsalutes the sky. More of a success at it this time than most others it is....

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101000101101011001100001100011001111000010101100010111110110110111110111101010011010010101110111011000101101100110110111010010101101011101010011101011101110101010011010101011010010101111110010011010010111010011111100100101101011101111110111111101111110101110001001010111101010011111110101111110110011101000101011 11001111101011100100010111111001011111100111011100011101001010011011010011111101001010100010101110101001001111110001101001 0010011001100010011001001101000101101001101011010101111111111110110011011100011110110001001111010001001101001110101111010011011001101011110111001100011101111001101011111001110111011010011001110101101111101100100010100111011001001001101101111010010110010011100111100101001101100010100010011000101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2975
  • Average number of words per stanza: 569
  • Amount of lines: 3
  • Average number of symbols per line: 991 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 190
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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