This is an analysis of the poem The Harp Of India that begins with:
Why hang'st thou lonely on yon withered bough?
Unstrung for ever, must thou there remain;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbabbcbcbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111011101 1011011101 1101111101 1101110101 1011100101 0101110011 1101001101 11001110111 11010010101 11001100101 01011010101 1111101101 10110100101 1011011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 614
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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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