This is an analysis of the poem Penumbra that begins with:
I DID not look upon her eyes,
(Though scarcely seen, with no surprise, ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbccbbbddeeedafffgXhhXiiggX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110101 11010101 11010101 01111101 11010111 10110101 11010101 01011111 01011101 10110111 10110001 11110111 11010100 01110111 0011110 10110111 10010101 11110111 01010111 11111101 11111111 110011110 10110100 11111100 11101111 11010011 110101001 01110101 101100111 11110100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1092
- Average number of words per stanza: 204
- Amount of lines: 30
- 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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