This is an analysis of the poem Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary that begins with:
Mary, Mary, quite contrary
How does your garden grow?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101100 111101 1101100111 11001111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 4
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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