This is an analysis of the poem The Wild Swans At Coole that begins with:

THE trees are in their autumn beauty,
The woodland paths are dry,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabaccadddcccedeffbfefggbgfgaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011011010 011111 10001011010 10011 01010100101 111101 0111011011 111111 110111110 11001 1101001101 0111001 1110111010 111101 111110111 011101 0110110111 100101 100110110 110001 100011101 111111 1011010110 010101 111110110 0100100 01110011 111111 0111110111 0111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 995
  • Average number of words per stanza: 177
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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