This is an analysis of the poem On Finding A Fan that begins with:
In one who felt as once he felt
This might, perhaps, have fann'd the flame;... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abab caca dddd efeb fgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111111 01011101 11011101 01110101 11010111 01110111 11010101 11011101 110001010 1100111010 1100101010 010001010 01110101 11011101 010111101 11110101 10010101 1111101010 01110101 010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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