This is an analysis of the poem A Symbol that begins with:
Hurrying for ever in their restless flight
The generations of earth's teeming womb ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabXa cddcdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10011001101 0101001101 10010110001 11010100001 1101010101 000110001 1101010110 1011010001 1101011111 0111111101 10100010101 1101000111 10010010101 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 299
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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