This is an analysis of the poem How Oft Has The Benshee Cried that begins with:
How oft has the Benshee cried,
How oft has death untied ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXXbb ccaaXXdd eeffXXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011 111101 111101 110111 101101110 101101110 110111 1100101 11001101 110101 1001111 1100101 110101110 111111100 110101 1100101 1011101 100101 111101 111101 111111010 110111100 111101 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 258
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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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