This is an analysis of the poem To A Young Writer that begins with:
Achilles Holt, Stanford, 1930
Here for a few short years ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abab cdcd eXeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101101 110110 100101 100101 011001 010111 110101 011111 1100001 110101 110001 111001 111100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 87
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 13
- 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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