This is an analysis of the poem Lucasta Laughing that begins with:
Heark, how she laughs aloud,
Although the world put on its shrowd: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabbccXXXdddeeeeffff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 11011101 11100101 111111 0011010101 1101 1101001 11110100 110111 1010 11011 1111 1100010111 11110101 01100101 11010111 11100111 010111 101101 101001 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 636
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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