This is an analysis of the poem Has Sorrow Thy Young Days Shaded that begins with:

Has sorrow thy young days shaded,
As clouds o'er the morning fleet? ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcDcD ceXecece fgfgXgXg XbabcDcD
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011110 11100101 11111110 11001001 11001110 1101111 110010110 1101111 11011110 0111001 11001010 1100101 100011110 0110111 111010010 1101101 111010010 1100101 0010010010 1101101 11101100 0101101 111011010 1101101 010110110 1100111 01011110 1110111 01011110 1101111 110010110 1101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 284
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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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