This is an analysis of the poem Quicksand Years that begins with:
QUICKSAND years that whirl me I know not whither,
Your schemes, politics, fail--lines give way--substances mock and... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXabbcXac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111110 11101111110011 011 100111011101101 1 1111011100101011 0101 1010110101111100 01 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 456
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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