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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcaddcXXdXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101100 100100 111 111001000 0011101 0101010001 01000010 10100010 0011 11111 001001101 1110000101 11110101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 376
  • Average number of words per stanza: 68
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it is repeated.

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  • history of its creation;
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