This is an analysis of the poem Isabel that begins with:

Now o'er the landscape crowd the deepening shades,
And the shut lily cradles not the bee;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbabXa bcbccdcXd efeffgfgg hXhbbebXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 110011101001 1011010101 0111000101 11010001001 1111111111 0110001101 1001110011 1011010110 101101111001 1101011101 111101001001 10011011111 1011000111 1111110111 1011010101 1111010101 11010100101 111101111110 1011111111 11110001101 11110100101 1101010001 1111111101 01110101110 1011010001 11110101010 1011011111010 11010101001 111101010 1101110101 1101110001 1111111101 1101011011 10001101110 1111010111 111101110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 409
  • Average number of words per stanza: 76
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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.

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