This is an analysis of the poem The Selfsame Song that begins with:
A bird sings the selfsame song,
With never a fault in its flow, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab bcbc dede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110101 01001001 11100111 1001 0101001 01011001 1111111 01001 1010101 1100101 1101111 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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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