This is an analysis of the poem On His Grotto At Twickenham that begins with:
Thou who shalt stop, where Thames' translucent wave
Shines a broad Mirror thro' the shadowy Cave;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddXXbbee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11111100101 10110101001 1101010101 11010101001 10001111101 1101010001 01110100001 1101010111 01110111001 1101011111 1101010101 1011111101 1111010101 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 635
- Average number of words per stanza: 104
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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