This is an analysis of the poem Fanscomb Barn that begins with:

In Fanscomb Barn (who knows not Fanscomb Barn?)
Seated between the sides of rising Hills, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcdeefbXXfagbhbeihehbXejkbbhjddfbbeafXhfbahdeeXhbcbbhdXXXbXddhXhilebdlhdeXdXkbgdadbbXbl hhaefbebdfiegfahialbbhjl belhhhXdeb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 89,24,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0101111101 1001010101 11011000101 11010110101 0101011111 0001 1101011101 1101010101 0101000111 110010011110 0110100110 1111000101 10111101001 1100110101 1101011001 0101101101 1101010101 0101010001 11010101001 1100010111 0111010110 1111100101 0001100011 0101011111 11110000101 10110101001 011111001001 0101010111 1110011101 1100010101 1101011111 1101111101 11011111001 1111010101 1100010101 1011111011 1001010101 0101010101 1101010101 1100010101 1001111001 0101110111 1010010101 11011100101 1101110001 0101010101 1100010101 1100011111 01010010101 1101110001 0101100001 1101011001 1101110111 1101110101 1110010111 1101010101 01010101100 1101011101 1010010110 1101011101 11110010101 0111111101 0101001101 1100011101 1101011110 1001010101 1100110101 1101110001 1111010101 1101010101 1101000100 1111011111 0101110101 010010010101 1001010001 10011101011 1101010101 0101010101 0101010111 1101110001 1101010101 110011110001 01010101101 0101001010 1101010101 1101011101 11001011101 10011001101 1101010111 1101110101 1101011001 11111101001 1101010011 01100101001 1101010001 0101011101 1011010101 1011010101 01011100101 111100011 1110110110 110110101 1101100101 11010001001 11010111010 1101010101 1111000101 0100110101 1101001101 111101101 11111110001 01110101001 01100011101 1111010101 1001001110 0101000101 1101011101 11100111010 1001011101 1001010010 1011010001 1100110011 11010110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1822
  • Average number of words per stanza: 295
  • Amount of lines: 123
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, of are repeated.

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