This is an analysis of the poem The River Wainsbeck that begins with:
While slowly wanders thy sequestered stream,
WAINSBECK, the mossy-scattered rocks among,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaccccdeedff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101010101 1001010101 0101100101 0011011101 01101010101 0111110001 1111110101 10001010111 1111010101 0111010101 1101011101 0101111011 1111011101 0011100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 606
- Average number of words per stanza: 108
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.
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