This is an analysis of the poem Lines Suggested By A Sight Of Waltham Cross that begins with:

Time-mouldering crosses, gemmed with imagery
Of costliest work and Gothic tracery,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaabbccddee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 110010100100 01001110100 1101010111 1101010101 1101010100 0101011110 11001010101 1101010101 010010010101 1101011111 11111101010 10111111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 537
  • Average number of words per stanza: 91
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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.

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

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