This is an analysis of the poem Visitation And Communion Of The Sick that begins with:

O Youth and Joy, your airy tread
Too lightly springs by Sorrow's bed,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbbaa ccdeaaff ggcchhaa aaccbbdX bXaabbii jjaaaaee kkddfflll
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111101 110011101 11110111 11010111 11111111 11010101 110101001 101100101 11111101 10010111 11111101 0111101 11010111 101010101 010110101 10011011 11010101 11110111 10110101 11101111 11010111 01111101 11110111 110011001 11111111 110100011 11110101 11001101 110100101 110111001 10001111111 01011101000 11010111 1010001010 01010101 11010101 10111101 11111101 11010101 11110101 11110101 11010101 11010101 01110101 11010101 11110101 01011101 11000101 11111111 11010101 01110101 11010101 10010101 110010101 100011101 00111101 01010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 298
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 57
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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