This is an analysis of the poem Stone Villages that begins with:

The stone-built villages of England.
A cathedral bottled in a pub window. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbb cXcbXbbaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011100010 00101000110 101011 10001 01001101 10111011011101 1101010101 0101 101011001 110110111 10100101 01001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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