This is an analysis of the poem I Heard You, Solemn-Sweep Pipes Of The Organ that begins with:

I HEARD you, solemn-sweet pipes of the organ, as last Sunday morn I
pass'd the church;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXaXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110110010111111 101 101011101111111 11101110 1100101010101010110 010001000110 101111111001110 010111 101011111101011 11011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 552
  • Average number of words per stanza: 93
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, of, heard are repeated.

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