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  • Rhyme scheme: aBCD ece fXgXhhfXaBCDdfg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,15,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101 101 110101011 11001001001 110 11110011 10000110100110 1001001001100100 000110010110101 10001010101001011 10100 0010011010100 1101011000100 0100101100100 101 101 110101011 11001001001 01 11011010110 11011110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.

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

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  • history of its creation;
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