This is an analysis of the poem Again, A Meeting that begins with:

Again a meeting, noisy, dying,
half colloquium, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXabcccadbdebbbXffXbbbbbgfgehXhcheeXccebc XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 41,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010101010 10100 1110 01001 101 01110100 011 110 0101 00101 101 1100100 1001 1011 1011 00100110 001001 111101 1100 11110 01010 110 01010 111 110010 110010 10010 101000100 01011001 11011 10010 1111 0011 01100100 110100 11101011 1010011 111000001001 000100 111000 10001001 1 010110110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 681
  • Average number of words per stanza: 75
  • Amount of lines: 43
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 3
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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