This is an analysis of the poem No More Brooding Bruising Sad Times that begins with:

No more brooding bruising sad times.
From the depths that soak tears up....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABAC aDEC BDBF BDBF ABDBEBCb ABXBcbXABAC
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,8,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101011 0011111 11101110 1111111 100101110 1110101 11100011 1111101 1111 111100101 1111 11110 1111 111100101 1111 11110 11101011 1111 1110101 1111 11100011 1111 1111101 11111 11101011 1111 11111001 1111 11011001 11111 11101011 0011111 11101110 1111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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