This is an analysis of the poem An Hour's Respite that begins with:
An hour's respite; once more the heart may dream:
the thunderwheels of passion thro' the eve, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcdedcfffefXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010110111 0100010101 100100100001 011111 11010101010 11001001101 10100111011 0101010 11010100111 0011010101 111110101 11011011011 1101011101 10000100100 11001011101 11010 11001011000
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 703
- Average number of words per stanza: 116
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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