This is an analysis of the poem Empty Nests that begins with:
Rocked on many a bending bough
Empty nests are swaying now... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbb bbcdddc eeaeeea ffghhhg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100101 1011101 00101 10100101 1000101 1110111 10101 0010101 1110101 00111 1010101 00100111 1000101 10101 1010111 1010101 10011 1010101 10100101 1011101 10111 1110111 1010101 001001 1110101 1111101 1110101 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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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