This is an analysis of the poem Sunday In Liguria that begins with:

This is the Sabbath day, the day of rest,
That breathes so gently in this quiet place,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbabccb deXdeffX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0001010101 1111000101 0101011101 0101010101 0101010001 01001110001 0111010101 1101011101 1101100101 1101100101 0101010100 1101111111 1001011101 01100001001 1010101101 0101010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 342
  • Average number of words per stanza: 62
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; this is repeated.

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