This is an analysis of the poem Wake Not For The World-Heard Thunder that begins with:
Wake not for the world-heard thunder,
Nor the chimes that earthquakes toll; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccabcc debbdecc fghhfgXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101110 1011111 111010010 10101010 10101110 1111111 10101001 1110111 11101010 1010101 10111010 11101010 10101110 1111111 1011111 1111111 11101110 1010101 11101011 11101011 11011110 1011101 101010010 1011111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 285
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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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