This is an analysis of the poem Emmie, Emmie Adams that begins with:

Emmie, Emmie Adams,
With her insolent air, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXbXbXbabXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101010 001001 1010101 00101 110100 11011 1011101 11101 111010 11111 1100101 01101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 288
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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