This is an analysis of the poem Steely Eyes that begins with:
Long frosting,
These cold shoulders....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdcXX dXcaebeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 110 1110 1011111 1110101 111 01101001 011010 100111 1100101 101101 0100011010 1110 1101010 1011 01011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 15
- 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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