This is an analysis of the poem Faith, Love And Death that begins with:

GREY dawn—and lucent star that slowly paled
Beyond the breaking splendour of the years, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abba abba cbbcXbc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111011101 0101010000 11011101011 01010100101 1111011111 11011100111 10010110001 110111101 1100010101 1001011101 0101111101 1001100101 1111111101 1111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 713
  • Average number of words per stanza: 114
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.

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