This is an analysis of the poem The Sun-Dial At Wells College that begins with:
The shadow by my finger cast
Divides the future from the past:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111101 01010001 010101110 010101110 01010001 010101101 110010011 01110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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