This is an analysis of the poem I Wish I Was By That Dim Lake that begins with:
I wish I was by that dim Lake,
Where sinful souls their farewell take ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbcc ddddccee ffffggcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 11011111 00111111 01111111 11101 01011110 11110111 11110101 01010101 00110101 0111001011 11101011 11111 11010101 1111100001 111100101 11101111 11011101 11011101 010101011 110111 100110111 11011111 01110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 302
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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