This is an analysis of the poem Christian that begins with:
I dreamed I stood upon a hill, and, lo!
The godly multitudes walked to and fro... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaaddeeaXccdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111010111 0101011011 0101010101 0101010001 1101110101 01001011101 1111010001 0101011101 0111000101 1101010101 1111010111 1111010001 1111010111 1101010101 1101100111 0110010101 0101000111 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 755
- Average number of words per stanza: 141
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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