This is an analysis of the poem Wood Rides that begins with:
Who hath not felt the influence that so calms
The weary mind in summers sultry hours... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaXXbabXcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11110100111 01010101010 11001010101 01011101010 1101011111 0101011111 0101010101 1101111101 11001011111 11110011111 1011010101 1101010001 1111110111 1101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 611
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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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