This is an analysis of the poem By That Lake, Whose Gloomy Shore that begins with:

By that Lake, whose gloomy shore
Sky-lark never warbles o'er,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbbcXdd ddeeffcc ggXaffhh ggddhhii jjggXXcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111101 11101010 1011111 1110101 101101101 100111110 1001101 1110111 1001111 1010101 1111111 1101101 10000111 1110111 11110011 1010111 1011101 1011111 101011110 1011111 11111001 00100110 1011111 01101111 1011101 0010101 1110101 0110101 1111101 1000111 1010101 1000101 1001101 1110011 1011111 1011101 1111001010 1011101 1011101 10100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 277
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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