This is an analysis of the poem In A Breton Cemetery that begins with:

They sleep well here,
These fisher-folk who passed their anxious days... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbacc deedff bggbbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111 1101111101 010101 1111 010111 11001 1111 1101111101 010101 1111 010100 111100 1111 110111001001 0111 010101 11110011 101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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