This is an analysis of the poem Rural Rambles - The Village that begins with:

Sweet village! where my early days were pass'd,
Though parted long, we meet, we meet at last!... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccccddbbbbeeXXbbccXfffddgghhbbbbhheeiibb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101110101 1101111111 111001100111 1101110111 1101001101 0110110101 11110101001 1101101101 0111010101 01000011101 1011010111 1111111101 1111010101 0101110111 01010101001 0101000101 0101001101 010011000 11111101011 1111110101 1001011101 11111100101 11111111010 1101010101 100110011010 11011101010 1101110101 1101010111 11010100111 1111010111 11010010101 1101010101 11011101001 1001010111 1101010101 1001111101 1111010101 11001010101 1101000101 0111000111 1101010101 101110101 1001011101 1101000111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1983
  • Average number of words per stanza: 356
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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