This is an analysis of the poem After that begins with:
WHEN, on an empty night in later years
Thou ponderest over sorrowful sweet things, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaaaaababbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111010100 11001010011 11000110101 01001110011 1111010101 1101010101 1001011101 0101010101 11110011001 0101011101 01010101001 0111111101 10011011001 1000111111011100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 667
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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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- summary of After;
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