This is an analysis of the poem The Distant Guns that begins with:
Negligently the cart--track descends into the valley;
The drench of the rain has passed and the clover breathes;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcXdbecdebXbdeaabe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10000110100010 010011110101 110100100110 010101010101 01101111110110 10100101101 001010111101 100101001110 110010101001 11001011110 0101011101 0101000111 11100101110 10011110100101 10011001010101 1010100101001 100111101101 101100101010 100111100010 0110111110 100101101011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1034
- Average number of words per stanza: 178
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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