This is an analysis of the poem To Alfred Tennyson that begins with:

Poet! in other lands, when Spring no more
Gleams o'er the grass, nor in the thicket-side... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXaaXbacddcdc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 10010110111 11001100101 11101110010 1111010101 10111011 0110010101 1101001111 1111111101 10010010101 01010011101 1101011111 0101010101 10001111111 1111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 635
  • Average number of words per stanza: 114
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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