This is an analysis of the poem With A Looking Back that begins with:
It took fifty years for them to face,
An increasing blight they put in place....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbaa bbbcXc cacXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 011001001 101011101 00101010 1111010101 101111001 101001011010 110101101101 0110110100101 1101001110101010 011011010101 110000101010110 101010011101 111110100100010 001000100111 011100010101 00101 00110101111001 1110011010111001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 283
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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