This is an analysis of the poem To Howard Phillips Lovecraft that begins with:

Lover of hills and fields and towns antique,
How hast thou wandered hence...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbadXXcXXXeefXXfgfhhg didiXjgjXiegbjjbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,17,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001111101 111101 111101 0101010100 111101 110111 110001110100 1001010 1111110101 0101010101 101111100101 010100010100 110101 100111 1011110100 1111010101 1011110110 1101010100 110101 0111110100 0111010001 1011101 1101011100100 1001010001 111111 0101001101 110101 1101110100 111111 1101010111 11001 0101010100 11110100 1111110101 110001010110 1100110101 1100010101 1001110101 100101 100101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 730
  • Average number of words per stanza: 130
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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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