This is an analysis of the poem Lines To A Beautiful Spring In A Village that begins with:

Once more, sweet stream! with slow foot wand'ring near,
I bless thy milky waters cold and clear.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffgghhiiddddbbbbXhccjj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1111011101 1111010111 01010001010 0111001010 1011010111 1101111101 1111010101 1100111101 1101010101 0101001101 1001110101 0101110101 0101011101 0101111101 0101110111 11010111001 0101110101 1011010101 1101001101 0101110101 1101000101 1001110001 1001110101 0101010101 1101010101 1111110101 0101011110 11011000111 11011100001 11001010101 1101111101 11001111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1425
  • Average number of words per stanza: 243
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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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