This is an analysis of the poem What Fields Are As Fragrant As Your Hands? that begins with:

What fields are as fragrant as your hands?
You feel how external fragrance stands...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabccb XXaddX X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111110111 111010101 01110010 11010001 11110101 111010100 1110011010 101010101 00100111 111010111 0111110101 11100101 0101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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