This is an analysis of the poem Today I Saw that begins with:
Today I saw
A market cart going along the road, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaabXaaXXaaXabbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111 0101100101 1111000101 0100 0101 1001010111 0111000111 0101 1111 1101000101 1111010101 01000 11110 1001110101 1110110101 1100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 471
- Average number of words per stanza: 85
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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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