This is an analysis of the poem Marriage Morn. that begins with:

Fades the moonlight on the sea,
And the dawn is coming in —...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefbXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011101 1010100 1001111 0011100 1011111 1110001 1111001 1010111 1011101 1101101 1110101 1010011 1110011 1010101 0010011 1001100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 490
  • Average number of words per stanza: 94
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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