This is an analysis of the poem 'The Laughing Hours Before Her Feet' that begins with:

The laughing Hours before her feet,
Are scattering spring-time roses, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdbdbdeceXbbbXafafbbbbXXebgdgdbfbf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010100101 110001110 101000111 1101010 111101001 0011010 11010101 0101010 1100101001 0101110 110101101 1101010 10010100 0111010 11010101 0101010 10010101 11000010 11001101 1101100 00110111 1101010 11000101 0101010 10010101 01110010 11010100 1101010 11010111 0111100 010100101 1111010 01111101 1101110 01000101 1111010 110100101 0111010 110001001 0101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1307
  • Average number of words per stanza: 224
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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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