This is an analysis of the poem Medusa that begins with:
I had come to the house, in a cave of trees,
Facing a sheer sky. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa abbcb XdXd Xcac Xaca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100100101 10011 10110111001 1101011 10110011 10101 1110101101 01110101010 1001 000110101 100101 01010100110 1011 01001111011 1011111 0101101011 1101 111111011 1001101 11101011110001 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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