This is an analysis of the poem On First Entering Westminster Abbey that begins with:
Thabor of England! since my light is short
And faint, O rather by the sun anew ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cXdcXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1001011101 1111010101 0101011101 1011111101 1100011001 0101010111 10110101001 1001011101 1111001101 01111101100 1101010101 1100010101 0101110101 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 285
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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