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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  • summary of The Distant Guns;
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