This is an analysis of the poem To William Bell Scott that begins with:

THE LARKS are loud above our leagues of whin
Now the sun’s perfume fills their glorious gold... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaabbXabccadad
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 0111011101 10101111001 0101010101 0101111101 1111010101 11110101010 1111110111 11001111101 1111010111 0111101101 1111011111 1111110111 110010001111 11110110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 649
  • Average number of words per stanza: 124
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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