This is an analysis of the poem Better And Best that begins with:
Better in bitterest agony to lie,
Before Thy throne,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef XXeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010010001 0111 111010010111 1101 1011111011 00010 110100010101 0101 1101111111 0101 111101010101 0111 1101011111 0100 111100111101 1110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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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