This is an analysis of the poem Stanzas Suggested By The Railway Accident At Desjardin's Canal that begins with:

Deep gloom pervades my spirit, and great sorrow fills my breast
With an overwhelming sense, which leaves me but little rest,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd cccc ddee aafXf aaff ggee hhbb ffii ccaa eeaa aajj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 11011101110111 01101011111101 101011101010111 11001010111101 111110011001010 10100110010101 101101111011 101001010110101 0100111110111 11000100110101 01011100010101 1101001010010100 110010100110001 11011100111101 111101110111 101010101111101 11011111010001 101110101010001 01000101010101 10101110111010 1 01010101100101 101011100011101 101101111101 100111001100101 11010101010111 11010101110011 111111001100 101111101000101 010101010110101 10010101010001 110101011101 11101101101101 11111010010101 11010101101110 11010101110111 11111101110101 11110100110101 01010111100101 1111111011101 11011101010101 11111111110001 110100110001 011101010010001 111110001010101 011110100111111 01000001110101 11110101111111 111011101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 49
  • Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, on, to, we are repeated.

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