This is an analysis of the poem The Dead Church that begins with:

Wild wild wind, wilt thou never cease thy sighing?
Dark dark night, wilt thou never wear away?... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab acac
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111101110 1111110101 111011110 01011101111101 11110101110 1111110111 1110111110 11110101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 8
  • Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy is repeated.

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