This is an analysis of the poem Woodspring Abbey that begins with:
These walls were built by men who did a deed
Of blood:--terrific conscience, day by day,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacbcbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101111001 0101010111 10100111101 1101111101 0111010101 11001110111 1101001101 1001010101 1111011101 1001110111 1101111101 11110111000 0101110101 1100100010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 627
- Average number of words per stanza: 107
- 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.
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