This is an analysis of the poem Spells And Incantations that begins with:
A vague pearl, a wan pearl
You showed me once; I peered through far-gone winters... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xab abc acd edX Xaf afe aeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011011 11111111110 0111111011 110110 1101111100 10111101001 101101010 11111111 1011010011 10101010 1101010111 0101010101 111111 1001111101 01001110101 111111 1011111101 11010100110 111111101 10010111110 1111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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