This is an analysis of the poem That Penny Held Tightly Within One's Fist that begins with:
Harsh assessments.
Coming to bombard....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdbcdebe fXeef ggXXaX XeXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,5,6,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010 10001 010101 110010 010101 1010101 010110 100101001 01 10101111 01010 11001 1011001 101001001001 1010110101010 01010001 011100101 0100011100 101001011 01 101011101 110 1101100111 01100100010100 01000100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 25
- 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 punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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