This is an analysis of the poem Fragment Of A Sonnet. Farewell To North Devon that begins with:
Where man's profane and tainting hand
Nature’s primaeval loveliness has marred,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 10100100011 11110011100 1101010001 101 11001101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 229
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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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