This is an analysis of the poem Looking For A Monk And Not Finding Him that begins with:
I took a small path leading
up a hill valley, finding there...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdXeXabbfdffXXcXbbbe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110 10110101 0100110 011010 011101 0010011 1111011 101010 11011010 1010110 0110011 100111 1011001 101011 0111011 0111100 010100 01100100 01010010 10100101 1101001 1011111 0010011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 644
- Average number of words per stanza: 130
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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