This is an analysis of the poem The Gloom That Breathes Upon Me that begins with:

The gloom that breathes upon me with these airs
Is like the drops which stike the traveller's brow ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaXbba cdcdXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 0111011011 01011101001 1111001111 1110110101 110101100110 11110000111 1101011111 1111110111 1100011111 01010000101 1111111111 101010001001 1101010001 1111110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 340
  • Average number of words per stanza: 62
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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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  • history of its creation;
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