This is an analysis of the poem Something Told The Wild Geese that begins with:
Something told the wild geese
It was time to go.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXXX XXbX baXa Acbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011 01101 101110 10101 101110 10101 101110 10101 101010 10101 111110 10101 101011 01101 1011111 10011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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