This is an analysis of the poem Forth Went The Candid Man that begins with:
Forth went the candid man
And spoke freely to the wind -- ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXX Abb cX acX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,2,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 1110001 11101111001110 110101 1110001 10111001 10010101110 101010110 101110010101 1101101001110 0111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 109
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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