This is an analysis of the poem Mount Tabor that begins with:

On Tabor's height a glory came,
And, shrined in clouds of lambent flame, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeefXeeggXX hhhXffii ggiiaajjkkXggddffff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,8,19,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010101 110010101 01110101 11010001 10111101 01010101 11010001 01010100 101101001 110011101 11111101 11010100 11110101 11011101 11110101 010011101 110100110 10111010100 01010100 11010001 01011101 01010101 11011101 01011101 10110101 10110111 11010101 11010111 11010111 10111101 11010101 01010101 01110101 010101001 11010001 11111101 11110101 110010101 11010101 11111101 11110111 11010101 01001101 11011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 398
  • Average number of words per stanza: 69
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • 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.

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