This is an analysis of the poem The Burning-Ghauts At Benares that begins with:
Dark loom the ghauts against the stream and sky;
The smoke doth rise and wind in columns grey;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bcbc dede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010111 0111110101 1101010101 1101110101 1100010101 1101011101 01010110101 0101000101 11010101010 11010011101 11111101010 111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- 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.
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