This is an analysis of the poem Oxford Revisited that begins with:

I never hear the sound of thy glad bells,
Oxford, and chime harmonious, but I say,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaccaddaedde
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1101010111 10110100111 1001111101 1101001111 1100010001 1101110101 0101010101 10001110011 0111011101 1101100111 1111010111 0101101101 11011111001 111101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 626
  • Average number of words per stanza: 118
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; of is repeated.

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