This is an analysis of the poem An Impromptu that begins with:
Not premeditated
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbaa ccaa ddee ddffXffdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101010 011111011010 1111010110010 11111001101 111001011101 11101001001 011101011001 11001101011 111011001001 10011010001 01011001001 11111101001 11011011001 00101111001 101111001001 11011101111 01101001101 11101111111 001111001001 111111111011 1110011011001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, his, that are repeated.
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