This is an analysis of the poem Album Verses that begins with:

WHEN Eve had led her lord away,
And Cain had killed his brother,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd aeae fXfe gege fgfgXgbgb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101 1111010 011100101 0101010 01010101 1101010 11010101 1101110 01010111 0011010 110101111 0101010 11110111 1101100 0101101001 1101110 011100111 0101110 11111111 1111110 11010111 1111010 010101001 0101010 110111001 1001010 110100001 1111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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