This is an analysis of the poem Holy Matrimony that begins with:
The voice that breathed o'er Eden,
That earliest wedding day ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbXcdc ecfc Xggg Xhfh fded bdXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111010 1100101 0101010 011101 1001100 010111 0101101 011101 00110010 010101 1111010 100111 0011010 011101 1111110 010101 00110010 010111 1111011 0100111 11111100 1111011 1100110 110111 0111011 001101 1001010 01111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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