This is an analysis of the poem To My Wife that begins with:

With a Copy of My Poems
I can write no stately proem... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a XbXb acac dede
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00100110 1111101 1011011 00100010 11101 10011010 10111 10101010 111 11111010 10101 00100010 10101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 81
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • 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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