This is an analysis of the poem Suggested By The Death Of Charles Skinner Matthews that begins with:

Joyously launched on life's untravelled streams,
Youth fears nor open sea nor treacherous bay;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcede
  • 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: 10011110001 11110111001 11001101001 1111010101 1101111101 1111111101 0101110101 1111011101 1111110101 11001010111 1101001101 01010101001 11010010111 1100010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 649
  • Average number of words per stanza: 108
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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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