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

IF thou be in a lonely place,
If one hour's calm be thine,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbcbc dedefcfc gcgXfdfd gbgbcbcb hhhhibib fjfjfcfc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01000101 0110101 11010101 1001101 010111010 110101 1100101010 110001 10010101 110001 11010101 0100101 11111101 1001001 10110101 101101 11010101 010101 01011111 010100 01101111 1111011 11000101 011101 01101111 1101001 11111111 0111001 11101111 111111 110111001 110111 11011101 011111 11011111 110101 110111010 111101 111110010 011111 111101001 010101 11111101 110101 11111011 010111 00101111 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 265
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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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  • summary of Stanzas;
  • central theme;
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