This is an analysis of the poem The Broken Ring that begins with:

To the willows of the brookside
The mill wheel sings to-day--... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccbbdeed faXagbeb Xeaaegfddf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,8,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00110011 011101 111 10101 100101 11001111 011101 01101 10101 11100101 1110010 010111 100101001 110101 1110010 0100101 11011101 10111001 1101010 110101 0111 00111 111101 1111010 1100111 111101 00111 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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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  • summary of The Broken Ring;
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