This is an analysis of the poem Our First Families that begins with:
SWEET are the manners of the wood,
Our only old society,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXaXacdcddbdbcecXebeXfXfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010001 11010100 11011110 010000100 01010100 11010101 110111001 11011101 11010101 01010101 01110101 111100101 01010101 11010100 0111101 01010100 11000101 11000100 11000101 11111000 11010101 10010100 11010101 100110100 01111101 1011010 01010101 0101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 875
- Average number of words per stanza: 145
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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