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O'er moorlands and mountains, rude, barren, and bare,
As wilder'd and weary'd I roam, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcaca XdddXeXe fgfghbhb ggXgadXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 101111011011 110011011 01011001101 111101001 101011001011 110010101 0100110011001 11011101 11011001010 11111101 11011111011 11010011 11111011010 11001101 11101011110 11111001 01111001111 11011001 11011011101 11011011 11001011011 10111001 01101011001 01011011 010111001101 01001001 11101101010 11111111 01111011001 01001001 010010111010 11011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 338
  • Average number of words per stanza: 61
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her, so are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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