This is an analysis of the poem Coleridge's Cristabel that begins with:
Mark yon runnel, how ’tis flowing,
Like a sylvan spirit dreaming ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaaabaabccddeeff XXccbbccgg dXXhhcc ii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,10,7,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101110 10101010 000111010 10111010 10101110 10011110 111001110 10011010 11111010 11101010 00101010 1110101 10011001 01010001 11011001 1010101 10101001 01010101 10011001 1011101 1010100 1111101 11000101 10111010 0101010010 10110001 1001101 010001010 11111010 1010101 01110100 10110011 01010101 01001001 01011101 0010101 11110011 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 329
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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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