This is an analysis of the poem In The Month Athyr that begins with:
I can just read the inscription on this ancient stone.
“Lo[r]d Jesus Christ.” I make out a “So[u]l.”...
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- Rhyme scheme: aXBXaXccXcXB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111001010101 110111101 00101010101 10101010010 01010111101011 0001011110000 11111010101 11111011111 1 11011100101 1110110101 00101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 562
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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