This is an analysis of the poem Martha that begins with:
Sometimes I lose
My power of loving for an hour or two, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXbcdccd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111 110010111011 1101 1100110001 0111001101 1101 1101010011 1101 0111111111 0101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 330
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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