This is an analysis of the poem Long-Legged Fly that begins with:
THAT civilisation may not sink,
Its great battle lost,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbbcXcDE bebecbfbDe cbfbXXaXDE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110000111 01101 100110010 00101 110100001 10111 0110110 011001 1011010101 0110110 10101001 110111 11100111 00101 111101101 1111101 1001010 11101 1011010101 0110110 11110011 0110011 10100110 11101 11110001 10101 01111011 011011 1011010101 0110110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 299
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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