This is an analysis of the poem Marathon that begins with:
Petals
on a river, a tree in blossom, one...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aba XX Xc cd Xe bX c Xd df ga gb feXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,2,2,2,2,1,2,2,2,2,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10 1010010101 110101 010111 010 010101010 10010 001111 111 111001010 11 11110111 0111 1010 0101010 1101 101001101 101 0101011 001010100 110011 1011101 10110 10110001111 10
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 46
- Average number of words per stanza: 9
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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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