This is an analysis of the poem Just Thinking that begins with:
Got up on a cool morning. Leaned out a window.
No cloud, no wind. Air that flowers held...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xab aXX XXb X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011011010 111111101 1011111 0101010111 010110011110 1101111 1010010010001 101111011 10111101 001011001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 101
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Just Thinking;
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