This is an analysis of the poem Request To A Year that begins with:
If the year is meditating a suitable gift,
I should like it to be the attitude ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX bXXa aXX acXc bcbcXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0010101001001 1110000101 0111110 1010101001 110110 1101010011010 1111011 010100100 100100101 0101101011101010010101 1111010101 101010010 1110101001 11011100 11001011101 1001100101 1001010101 111110100101 0101010101 10111101011 11111010001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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