This is an analysis of the poem Oh, The Sight Entrancing that begins with:

Oh, the sight entrancing,
When morning's beam is glancing ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XABBAaaccXXABBA ddeedffeefddggdXaBBa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,20,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101100 1101010 10101 0111 11001110 1111110 10101010 1111 1101 1100100 101100 1101010 10101 0111 11001110 1111110 1111010 0101 1111 1111010 1101110 1111110 1111 0101 1111110 0111010 10001110 1101 1111 1111110 111100 10101010 10101 0111 10101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 490
  • Average number of words per stanza: 82
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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