This is an analysis of the poem To Helen About Her Hair that begins with:
Your hair is long and wonderful;
It is dark, with golden...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXa bbX aXa XXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011100 001010 100100 11010100 011110 100101 01111100 001110 100101 11110100 111011 100100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 83
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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