This is an analysis of the poem The Hill Pines Were Sighing that begins with:

The hill pines were sighing,
O'ercast and chill was the day:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd XefeXafaf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011010 10011101 01001010 100101 1100110 1010010 00100110 10110010 01011100 1100101 00101110 0101001 1001010 1010001 1001010 10100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

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