This is an analysis of the poem Daily Trials By A Sensitive Man that begins with:
Oh, there are times
When all this fret and tumult that we hear ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacddceXde fggf hffh abba aiia iggi faaf abbaXaffa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 1101110111 1111100101 0111 1111 0100010101 1001010101 1011 0101 11011010101 1101111111 1001 1101 0111110001 11110100111 1101 1101 1111010100 111100111001 1111 1001 1101010101 1101111101 0111 1001 1101010101 1000000101 0111 1011 1111001101 1101010101 1111 1011 1100011101 1111010111 0101 1001 100100011 1101010001 1011 1101 1111011111 1011110101 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 44
- 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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