This is an analysis of the poem Holy Ghost! Dispel Our Sadness that begins with:
Holy Ghost! dispel our sadness;
Pierce the clouds of nature's night.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101110 1010101 11101110 1111111 10011010 11111001 11111010 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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