This is an analysis of the poem There's No Earthly Way Of Knowing that begins with:
There's no earthly way of knowing
Which direction they are going!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010 10101110 11101110 11111010 10101010 10101010 10101110 11100110 10111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 305
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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