This is an analysis of the poem Margaret Fuller that begins with:

THOU, Sibyl rapt! whose sympathetic soul
Infused the myst’ries thy tongue failed to tell; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaabcbcdeedff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 1101110101 0101011101 10110100101 1111010101 1111000101 11001100011 1101010101 1111000101 1011010101 1111100001 1111010101 0101110101 0111111101 010111101 1011110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 702
  • Average number of words per stanza: 115
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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.

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