This is an analysis of the poem Lost Treasure that begins with:
THE autumn day steals, pallid as a ghost,
Along these fields and man-forsaken ways; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXabba aaacac
- 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: 0101110101 0111110101 110010010101 01001011111 11110001011 01111100101 0101010101 1100010111 1101011001 1101001011001 1111010111 0101010101 11110010101 10010011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 323
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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