This is an analysis of the poem Song—behold The Hour, Etc. (Second Version) that begins with:
BEHOLD the hour, the boat arrive;
Thou goest, the darling of my heart;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcccXdedeeeeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010100101 11010011 10011101 11111111 11010101 11010101 1001110111 110101010 01010101 11011111 01010101 11011101 100110010011 101110110 11111101 111111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 601
- Average number of words per stanza: 103
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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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