This is an analysis of the poem Saint Florent-Le-Vieil that begins with:

The spacious open vale, the vale of doom,
Is full of autumn sunset; blue and strong ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cddcdc
  • 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: 0101010101 0101011111 0100010101 0101010101 1101010001 11010011111 11001001101 1001010101 11100000101 0111011111 01001010101 010111011 11011010101 1001001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 296
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

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