This is an analysis of the poem I Found A Few Old Letters that begins with:

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I found a few old letters of mine carefully hidden in thy box—a few small toys for thy memory to play with. With a timorous heart thou didst...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 110111001100100110111111000100010011110111000100101110011011111111010110111111010100111111110111001010101011010101111100111 11011010100111110011000010110001001011101101011101010001011101111001001110010110101100101111010101001011010111010111110100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1017
  • Average number of words per stanza: 200
  • Amount of lines: 3
  • Average number of symbols per line: 338 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 67
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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