This is an analysis of the poem The Melancholy Pool that begins with:
Marked by the priesthood of the Night's misrule,
The shadow-cowled, imprecatory trees—...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXaaXXabcdbcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101000101 01110100001 1011011100 11110100101 1011010101 11011101000 1111010011 1011010111 1001010111 0101011101 1101000101 1100110011 1011011101 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 619
- Average number of words per stanza: 107
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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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