This is an analysis of the poem The Grand Canyon of the Colorado that begins with:

A thought of God on earth expressed!
The silence of his perfect rest;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddee ffgghhcc iigg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,8,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01011101 01000011 010001010 0101010010 10100111 11110101 11110101 01001101 11010011 01111101 010101001 010100101 11111101 01000101 010000101 11010101 11111111 11111101 10111111 01010100 11011101 11110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 255
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • 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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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