This is an analysis of the poem Sketch—new Year's Day, 1790 that begins with:
THIS day, Time winds th' exhausted chain;
To run the twelvemonth's length again:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXaa ccddeeffXbXa XXaXccccggddeeeggaagg eeffhhdXhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,12,21,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011110101 010100101 110111010 010101010 01010101 01010101 01010101 01011011 11111101 110101101 01010001 01010101 10110101 11010101 011100111 110101010 110101010 010100010 110100010 10001111100 110011010 1101011110 11111111 11010101 010101001 10111011 01110101 01100101 10010111 111100101 01010101 110010001 11001101 11010101 11000101 11010101 11010001 101100101 111100101 111100101 10110101 111010101 11111101 11011101 101100101 01110001 01110010 10111101 10111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 442
- Average number of words per stanza: 77
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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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