This is an analysis of the poem Solomon And The Witch that begins with:

AND thus declared that Arab lady:
'Last night, where under the wild moon... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdXedeXfXfggggabcbhihijkjkgbgXXfdfdXeXegbgX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 46,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111010 11110011 110101111 01111100 1100110011 10110 1101 11010111 11111010111 01011100 100100101 11000101 11010111 11111111 110110111 11010101 10110111 11110100 10110001 11110101 011101001 11110001 1100111010 01000111 111111010 10011101 111010101 1101101 10111111 110010101 11111101 1101111 11000100 1011 1101 110011001 11110101 10110011 11001110 11110101 00100101 01010101 110101010 10111111 10101010001 110011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1577
  • Average number of words per stanza: 293
  • Amount of lines: 46
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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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