This is an analysis of the poem On Visiting The Tomb Of Burns that begins with:
The town, the churchyard, and the setting sun,
The clouds, the trees, the rounded hills all seem,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdedec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0101110101 0101010111 1100111001 111011110 0111010011 010111101 11001111101 1011010101 1111010101 0101010111 1001010111 1101010101 11110011111 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 595
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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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