This is an analysis of the poem On A Proposed Trip South that begins with:
They tell me on the morrow I must leave
This winter eyrie for a southern flight ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba abba cdX cdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111010111 0101010101 1101110001 1101010001 10111010001 0101011111 1101011101 1111011101 0001110101 1101010111 0101010101 1111011101 0111010101 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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