This is an analysis of the poem What Are Years that begins with:
What is our innocence,
what is our guilt? All are...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbbXccdXeccddffcXcXfedee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101100 101111 1010111 010011010 01011 1010101001 0010101 01010 100011 010011 111011 0100100 100010010 01011 01001010000 1101000 000100 100100 111101 010101 1101111 011111010 01010 110100010 1110101 000100 000100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 714
- Average number of words per stanza: 126
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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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