This is an analysis of the poem Verses Printed By Himself On A Flood At Olney that begins with:

To watch the storms, and hear the sky
Give all our almanacks the lie;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcXddeeddffXXcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01011101 11110001 01011101 01010101 11111101 11110110 11111101 11010001 11111011 11110001 10011110 11011100 10011101 11011101 01000101 11100101 11010001 11010011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 594
  • Average number of words per stanza: 119
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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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