This is an analysis of the poem Perhaps It's Time that begins with:

Perhaps it's time, since there falls
From trees all leafage that has been...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcb dedfc XeeXccX abcXaXa aXfae
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,7,7,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101111 01110110 11 011110001 10101101 01010011 110101001 0101 1101101001 01101010101 111011110 0101 0110101111 101 100010010 11 0111011001 1011111101 1110111100 1010 00110111010 001 110010101 01 1111001010 1000110 1101 1110011101 101010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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