This is an analysis of the poem The Grey Company that begins with:
O the grey, grey company
Of the pallid dawn! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbccaC cXXXccdc deXebfgf ccXcXheh abXbeiei cbabgXee diXiccaC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011100 10101 101010 10111 011100 10100 0101100 100101 1000100 10111 101010 110101 1000100 10101 101010 10101 101010 10111 0101000 10101 101010 1011001 11011010 10001 011010 100101 101010 11100 111010 1011 111010 10111 1011100 1100101 001010 100111 101110 11101 111011 10111 011100 10101 101010 10101 1010010 1010100 1101010 10101 0100010 110001 1100100 10101 1101010 101101 011100 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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