This is an analysis of the poem Hospital For Defectives that begins with:

By your unnumbered charities
A miracle disclose,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaBacddd eeXeXdXdXada Bacaecdc Xa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,12,8,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111000100 010001 10010011 011101 11010101 101101 11100101 1110001 11110101 010011 11110101 111101 11010100 110101 01011110 110101 11111100 111101 10010001 0111011 10010011 011101 11010001 010101 0100010111 110101 11100101 100111 01011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of Hospital For Defectives;
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  • history of its creation;
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