This is an analysis of the poem James Shirley: Xiv that begins with:

THE DUSK of day’s decline was hard on dark
When evening trembled round thy glowworm lamp... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba ccdede
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 0101011111 1101011101 1101011101 0111011001 11011100101 1101101101 101111100101 11111100111 10010011101 11001000111 01011101001 0101010101 1101000101 111100101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 317
  • Average number of words per stanza: 56
  • 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; in is repeated.

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