This is an analysis of the poem I Stood Upon A Highway that begins with:
I stood upon a highway,
And, behold, there came ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaaXbX XXXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011 10111 10110 0111110 1011010010 10011001 100011100 11110 11011 111101 111011001 01011110100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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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