This is an analysis of the poem Written In A Diary that begins with:
They who go down to the relentless deep,
After long horrible death of cold and drought... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaacddXeceee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111000101 10110010111 10110100111 10010111001 0100110001 1011010101 00111100110 01011101010 0010110100 1110110101 01001101011 1111110101 1111111101 10011100111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 597
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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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