This is an analysis of the poem Wanting Sumptuous Heavens that begins with:
No one grumbles among the oyster clans,
And lobsters play their bone guitars all summer. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXababXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110010101 11011101110 1010110011 1000110101 10110110011 10001110010 101010111001 1011111010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 346
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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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