This is an analysis of the poem To The Poets Who Only Read And Listen that begins with:
WHEN evening's shadowy fingers fold
The flowers of every hue,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd aeae fefe gggg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110100101 01001001 11110101 010101 1001001110 0100111 110100010 011101 11110111 110101 11110101 010101 11011101 110101 11010101 101101 10000011 010101 10010101 0100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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