This is an analysis of the poem The Laurels Are Cut Down that begins with:
We go to the woods no more, the laurels are cut down.
Figures of Love in low places, the group of Naiads...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXbXXbabaA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100111010111 100101100101 1100100111110 01010110110 0101111011001 101010011111001 110101100010 01010010101011 100110110101111 1100111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 560
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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