This is an analysis of the poem Woone Smile Mwore that begins with:

O! MARY, when the zun went down,
Woone night in spring, w’ viry rim, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdXX dXddceXeXX XfXfgXgXeX eXeehchceX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010111 11001100101 01011101 11110111 11010101 11010101 01010101 11011111 11011110 01010111 01010101 11010101 11010101 01010101 11010101 01011101 01011011 01111101 011110110 11110111 11110101 01010101 11010101 10010101 11011101 01010101 01110101 01010111 11111001 11110111 11110101 01010101 11111111 11110101 10011101 01011101 11110111 111011101 111111101 110011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 366
  • Average number of words per stanza: 68
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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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