This is an analysis of the poem Weddings that begins with:

Weddings in days of war,
false cheating comfort, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXddefgfbeddcdbdhbbhijhhXgbcXiXeckchcaXcebXdcjcXkXllcdejahlhcchljj Xd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 68,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100101 11010 11010 11110 1011101 110101 11001010 0010010 100110 01010 10110001 00100100 0110 11101 0110011 01111101 01 101001 100111 11101101 11001101 10010101 10101001 0101001 0111 0101011 1110101 111010 010011 010111 10101010 10101010 11111111 1101110 1110101 11111 10010011 111001 1111 0101 1010 1111 111010 1010111 1000101 101 1 01 01 1010011 10111 11 1101010 11101 11110 11111 10101010 101 11010111 1110111 11010101 11010101 11111111 011101 11101 1011101 1101001 11111 1 010111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 959
  • Average number of words per stanza: 165
  • Amount of lines: 71
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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