This is an analysis of the poem The Fallen Spire [a Flemish Village] that begins with:
THE spire is gone, that slept for centuries,
Mirrored among the lilies, calm and low:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XaXa cdcd Xaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101111100 1001010111 1101011101 1101000101 0111010101 1101111101 11010101010 1101010101 1101010101 0101000111 0101010101 1001110101 1101011101 1101010101 1001010001 11001010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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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