This is an analysis of the poem The Death Of Parson Caldwell's Wife that begins with:

THE outrage of innocence in instances too numerous to be recorded, of the wanton barbarity of the soldiers of the King of England, as they patrolled... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011010001001100000100010010000100010101101010001000010010111101001001011001001101100101110101100101100110101111101001101001010010010010010000101000110111011010011010010101000010100101110100110010101100101011000111011101001101000100010100101100010101010100010001100100101001010100110101001101111010101001100100101100011001001010010101000110000010101010000110011010100100100100001000111001001010111010101010010010111010101010000110100010010110101100010101001010100101101100100010110110101011011101111101110101010100101011111000101011001001011010010100100101100101000110010110001001001010100100100100101011011011101010001010101101110101000100010011110111010100100101001101001000010010111010111010000100000101001010011010100101001111010100100011101010101101001010101010101101001001011010101001010100001001100100110010011011011000101010010101010011100010101011100101010100001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3192
  • Average number of words per stanza: 543
  • Amount of lines: 1
  • Average number of symbols per line: 3192 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 543
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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