This is an analysis of the poem Lord Gregory: A Ballad that begins with:

O MIRK, mirk is this midnight hour,
And loud the tempest's roar;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXcXc dedefgfg Xhchdcdc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111001110 110101 0101001110 1100111 11110101 111101 11110111 010110 110011101 11101 11111101 111101 11011111 111101 11111011 010101 10111100 110011 110101101 111111 110010001 110101 11110111 0101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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