This is an analysis of the poem Smoke-Rings that begins with:
BOY
Most venerable and learned sir, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a Xbaa b ccddeeccffggffhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11000111 1110100 11011111 01111111 0100 110111010 111100010 101101010 101101010 001010101 01110101 11001111 10100101 110011111 11011111 11111101 11111111 1110101 11110101 011011111 1111001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 22
- 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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