This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xxvi: Where Antique Woods that begins with:
Where antique woods o'er-hang the mountains's crest,
And mid-day glooms in solemn silence lour;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXaaXXabcbcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10111010101 1111010101 0100110101 1111010101 1101010101 10010111110 1101101101 11000011101 1101010111 11100100101 1101110101 1101010101 0111010100 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 646
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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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