This is an analysis of the poem Security that begins with:
Tomorrow will have an island. Before night
I always find it. Then on to the next island....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaca bdXXc adbcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 01101110011 111101100110 11010001101 11100110 1110111101101 111000011011010 111101110110 011010110110 010010010101 10110110110010 1011101110 0001000111110 1111001101 10010101110 1100101111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 224
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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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