This is an analysis of the poem To An Æolian Harp that begins with:
Oh! breezy harp! that, with thy fond complaining,
Hast held my willing ear this whole night long;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaXbXbacac dede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011011010 1111010111 10111111110 110010101001 11010111010 1111100001 01011111111 0111011110 11010001110 1110101010010 11011101110 100101010010 101100111110 0101110111 11011111110 0111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 384
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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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