This is an analysis of the poem The Dark Hour that begins with:

And now, when merry winds do blow,
And rain makes trees look fresh, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcb ddXd eeXe Xada cfgf hhgh Xggg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110111 111111 110101001 0101 11110101 101111 01000101 1111 10011110 111111 101101011 1111 11110110 111111 01010111 10111 11011111 110111 11111101 0101 01011101 110101 01110011 1101 111101110 101101 00110101 1101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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