This is an analysis of the poem When The Gloom Is On The Glen that begins with:
When the moonlight's on the mountain
And the gloom is on the glen,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaAAAaA bcbcdaXa bXbXdaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 1010101 10101010 1010111 10101010 10101010 1010111 11111111 10010011 11101011 1110111 101010100 1010101 11111010 1011101 100111111 100111010 10101111 1111101 11101010 1111111 00101111 0010001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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