This is an analysis of the poem There Was A Great Cathedral that begins with:
There was a great cathedral.
To solemn songs, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXabXXabX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 0101 01010 101010 0111 101110110 111111 1001010 1010100001 01110010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 294
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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