This is an analysis of the poem After Sunset that begins with:
The vast and solemn company of clouds
Around the Sun's death, lit, incarnadined, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbcXbcaddeea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0111010001 01011110000 1001011110 0101010101 11011011101 1110100010 11011101001 1001110010 1101010101 1011010101 10001000101 11001110101 1111010111 10010010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 617
- Average number of words per stanza: 108
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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