This is an analysis of the poem One Foot Across A Threshold that begins with:
One foot across a threshold,
With a looking back...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXbbbaXXaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011 00101 11101 10100010010 1011101001 1111 101001001 11101010 1010010001 001001100 01110 110010101000 110101011010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 407
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 13
- 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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