This is an analysis of the poem Her Eyes Twin Pools that begins with:
Her eyes, twin pools of mystic light,
The blend of star-sheen and black night;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110101 01011111 1010111001 01111101 01111111 011101001 01010101 01111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 311
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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