This is an analysis of the poem Meeting that begins with:
For Michael Hamburger
Barn owl...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcd eff gfhag fdhc ije Xfeie jfb Xa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,3,5,4,3,5,3,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110100 11 1001 010011 1101 0010 0010101 11 011 1101 0100110 11010111 10011 010111 00111 101011001 0011 001010 0101001 0101 10011 0100001 01001 10011101 1111 0010010 00101010 010110100
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 72
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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