This is an analysis of the poem To Daisies, Not To Shut So Soon that begins with:
Shut not so soon; the dull-eyed night
Has not as yet begun... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cccc XdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111 111110 01010101 101101 1101111 111101 11010101 110101 1111101 010101 11011101 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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