This is an analysis of the poem In The Harbour: At La Chaudeau. (From The French Of Charles Coran) that begins with:

At La Chaudeau,--'tis long since then:
I was young,--my years twice ten; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcX ddeXcX aaffcX ddXXcX eeggcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101111 1111011 11110101 1011101 100101101 1110 11101111 11011101 10010111 100101010 01010110101 1110 11101111 10110111 01010111 010101101 0100101111 1110 11101101 0100100111 10001110 11011111 100110111 1110 11101111 10001101 101101010 10111010 0010100101 1110
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • 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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