This is an analysis of the poem Oiling that begins with:
Excuse me, Sweetheart, if I smear,
With wisdom learnt from ancient teachers,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcde fgfghghge hihijkjkX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01111011 010101010 11011101 010111010 01011101 110100010 01110001 010101010 1001 01010001 010101110 01011101 110101010 11111111 110101010 01111101 011100010 1001 01111101 011001010 01010101 110101010 11010101 110101010 11000101 1001001010 1001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 308
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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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