This is an analysis of the poem From “phantasmion” - He Came Unlook'D For that begins with:

HE came unlook’d for, undesir’d,
A sunrise in the northern sky, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcbc dcdc eaea
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101100 01100101 11010110 01110101 01100101 01110101 110101001 11110101 110101010 11111101 110111010 01011101 11110101 11010001 11110101 11011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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