This is an analysis of the poem A Northern Legend that begins with:
FROM THE GERMAN OF UHLAND.
There sits a lovely maiden,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcdc Xaea fgfg Xede fcaX dbcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010010 1101010 0101001 1101110 010101 0100110 0100101 0101110 110001 1000010 0111001 1101010 010101 1000010 011101 0101110 110001 0101010 110101 0111110 110111 1101010 010101 0111011 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 96
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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