This is an analysis of the poem Verses On Castle Gordon that begins with:
STREAMS that glide in orient plains,
Never bound by Winter's chains;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaaaXb ccdcdeeeb ddfdfeeeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101011 1011101 1011101 11000101 01001001 1110101 11010111 110111010 0111010 1010101 1000101 1010101 10101001 1110111 1110101 11010101 11011101 0111010 1010101 1011101 0110101 1000101 11010101 1111101 111101001 11011111 111010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 293
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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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