This is an analysis of the poem Thoreau's Flute that begins with:
We sighing said, "Our Pan is dead;
His pipe hangs mute beside the river ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacddX effeecce aggahXah icciXggX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110101 011101010 010101010 11010101 011110101 01110100 01110111 010001010 10010111 110101001 101111011 010010101 01110101 01000110 11110100 11010011 100010101 10110111 01110101 11101101 11010101 11010100 1101011 01010100 101110101 11110100 10011101 11110111 11011100 01010101 11100101 111110010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 290
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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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