This is an analysis of the poem On Reading Lord Dunsany's Book Of Wonder that begins with:
The hours of night unheeded fly,
And in the grate the embers fade; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XcXc dddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 010010101 10010101 11111111 01010101 11010101 010010101 11010010 01011101 01011101 10010101 10110101 11010111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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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