This is an analysis of the poem The Indian To His Love that begins with:

THE island dreams under the dawn
And great boughs drop tranquillity;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXabbcdcddefefXfgdgdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01011001 11111000 01011011 01010101 10101100010001 11011101 110100101 10010101 01010101 100110110101 11010101 11010101 111111001 010000101 1001110111 11 01010101 11110101 11111101 11110101 0100101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 746
  • Average number of words per stanza: 137
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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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