This is an analysis of the poem The Apparition: A Retrospect that begins with:
Convulsions came; and, where the field
Long slept in pastoral green,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXab cdbbd decce
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 01011101 1101001 010101100 10111101 111101 01000111 01000101 11011100 11110101 011111 11100001 0101001 111111001 11110101 0101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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