This is an analysis of the poem Fear that begins with:
I am afraid, oh I am so afraid!
The cold black fear is clutching me to-night ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacddceedffd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101111101 0111010101 1101111101 1101011111 1011010101 1111110111 1111000111 1111000111 0111010111 0101011101 1111101101 1101011111 1110010111 1111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 636
- Average number of words per stanza: 126
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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