This is an analysis of the poem Wild Europe that begins with:

WILD Europe, red with Woden's dreadful dew,
On fire with Loki's hate, more savage than... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbabaabcaac acXXbddbdbbd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010101 11001011101 1111110001 100100101001 1010010101 0111001101 11010010101 0111010100 1001111101 0111101101 0101110101 011101001001 1101011111 10010100101 1101011100 0101010010 1101011101 1101010101 0100011101 0111010111 1001010101 1111011101 1010110001 1101000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 513
  • Average number of words per stanza: 93
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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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