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How has New England's romance fled,
Even as a vision of the morning!... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaaXcdcdeeaaeffeaaccggbbXgggaaffhhiiggaaaaggggegeghheXfXjfXbjjbggaadggXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 73,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110011 1010100010 0110001001 01000101 100101010 110100101 110110101 0101011 11010101 110101001 10110101 11010111 11001101 100100111 111101010 110010010 11010111 010101010 010101010 110101110 011111010 111111010 1100111010 011101001 11000111 11111101 01111111 111101010 1100111010 11110101 01010101 110001010 0011010010 01010111 01110101 11010111 00110101 0100111010 010101010 01010101 01100101 11011101 110100101 111111010 001111110 110001110 101101010 11111101 010011110 11110101 010101010 10111101 01011001 101111100 11000101 110101010 10110100 11010101 111111010 11010100 010111010 0110101 110010111 010101010 11110101 11011100 11010101 01110111 100010111 01010101 11000101 010101000 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2609
  • Average number of words per stanza: 446
  • Amount of lines: 73
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

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