This is an analysis of the poem Earth! My Likeness! that begins with:

EARTH! my likeness!
Though you look so impassive, ample and spheric there,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXbXabX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110 1111010101101 11011011 11011010101100001 1 111101000011101 1011101011100011000 011 1111001110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 403
  • Average number of words per stanza: 70
  • Amount of lines: 9
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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