This is an analysis of the poem Paudeen that begins with:
INDIGNANT at the fumbling wits, the obscure spite
Of our old paudeen in his shop, I stumbled blind... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101010010011 011100011101 010111110101 0101011001001 01010110010111 110101111011 110001001101 010111011011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 403
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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