This is an analysis of the poem Clipping Wings that begins with:
Clipping wings.
With a doing to keep, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXXXbbccd AdefceXfXXddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101 001001 111100 10101101 10 01001110 000100110 00100100 111001 101 0001000101 01 110011001 110100001 11110011001 10010100101 1101001111 10101010100 11 1110100 01
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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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