This is an analysis of the poem Written On Sunday Morning that begins with:

Go thou and seek the House of Prayer!
I to the Woodlands wend, and there... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: Aabccbddeedffdd Aagghhddcc Aiaiibcbddee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,10,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101 10011111 0101010101 010101 111101 1011000111 0101010101 11110011 110111 100101 11010101 11010101 10111001 1101010111 1101010101 11110101 10011101 10110111 11110100 01111101 110000101 0101111101 101100111 1011111101 11010111 11110101 10011111 110101 1111011101 1101010101 01001101 110010111001 110100010001 1111001101 1001010101 1110000101 11010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 475
  • Average number of words per stanza: 88
  • Amount of lines: 37
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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