This is an analysis of the poem When That Muffin Is Gone that begins with:
When the muffin has been eaten,
It is gone....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 001 0100101100 101101 111001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 5
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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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