This is an analysis of the poem May Wind that begins with:
I said, "I have shut my heart
As one shuts an open door,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbX XcXc bcaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101111 1111101 111101 11011100 1100111 011101 10111001 1010101 1111001 111101 101110111 0111110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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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