This is an analysis of the poem Fourteenth Sunday After Trinity that begins with:

Ten cleansed, and only one remain!
Who would have thought our nature's stain... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaabbbbb cXcdeeeX fffghhhg iiiXjjjX dddXccca fffebbbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101 11111101 11111101 1011101 11111111 11011001 10110101 110101 11110101 110010110 110011101 111111 10011111 11010111 110011101 1101010 10111111 10010101 11011101 110101 11010111 010011111 00100101 011100 10110111 11011111 01100101 0101010 111100101 1000100101 10110101 110101 11110101 11011101 010011101 10111100 11010101 01011111 11010001 101101 11110111 01010101 101111001 011111 101110101 11011101 11110101 1101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 278
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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