This is an analysis of the poem Seeing the Eclipse in Maine that begins with:
It started about noon. On top of Mount Batte,
We were all exclaiming. Someone had a cardboard ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbc cXaX ddaaXba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 01001111011 101010111011 10111111101 010101101110 01100101110 1110011100 10001011011 110111101 11101101011 100101011 101011101 011110100110 111011101 10110101111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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