This is an analysis of the poem So You Say that begins with:
It is all in the mind, you say, and has
nothing to do with happiness. The coming of cold,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaXaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010011111 1001010001001 01001011101001 11111110010 10010011101101 1010101001010 101010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 339
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 7
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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