This is an analysis of the poem Lines Written On The Morning Of The Dreadful Fire that begins with:
Oh! there has come on us a dreadful calamity,
Our fine Depot Buildings in ruin lie low.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acXc dede cfgf dhdh gidi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110100100 11101001011 1111100100100 010101010101 0010010011010 110110011001 11110101010110 1101001011 111010100010 11001011011 1110110111010 00101001001 110011011010 11101011011 111011000010 11011011111 111011111010 11111001001 111111110010 11011001001 110110110010 01101101011 010110110010 11101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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