This is an analysis of the poem The Flies that begins with:
Say, sire of insects, mighty Sol,
(A fly upon the chariot-pole... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccddeeddXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110011101 010101001 11111001 01001101 11001101 111010101 01010101 11010111 11010101 110110101 01110101 11111111 11010101 010111101 110011100 111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 567
- Average number of words per stanza: 103
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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