This is an analysis of the poem What The Thrush Said. Lines From A Letter To John Hamilton Reynolds that begins with:

O thou whose face hath felt the Winter's wind,
Whose eye has seen the snow-clouds hung in mist ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabXacXcCXCbXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111110101 1111011101 1011110101 01001000101 1111011001 0011011101 1101110101 01001100101 1111010111 1111110001 1111010111 11010101110 11010010010 1101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 624
  • Average number of words per stanza: 116
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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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