This is an analysis of the poem Antwerp And Bruges that begins with:

I climbed the stair in Antwerp church,
What time the circling thews of sound ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabXccddcXeeffedggddg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010101 110100101 11110101 11010101 01101101 11010101 01010101 11010101 01011111 11011111 01011111 01010101 11001111 11110011 11011111 01011101 11110101 01110100 11110101 01010101 11110111 01110111 11110101 11110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 872
  • Average number of words per stanza: 163
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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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