This is an analysis of the poem To The President Of Magdalen College, Oxford that begins with:
Since now from woodland mist and flooded clay
I am fled beside the steep Devonian shore, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabXacdcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101111101 111010101001 1111011101 10110010011 1101011101 1100011111 1000111010010 111100101001 1101010101 11001001101 1111001101 1111000011 1111110101 1101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 606
- Average number of words per stanza: 105
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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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