This is an analysis of the poem Netley Abbey that begins with:

Fallen pile! I ask not what has been thy fate;
But when the winds, slow wafted from the main, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaaccabdbdee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 10111111011 1101110001 1111110101 1100111101 1011010101 0111010011 1101011111 1100110101 11110111101 1110011111 1111001111 0111010011 1111110011 010101101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 651
  • Average number of words per stanza: 117
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they is repeated.

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