This is an analysis of the poem Sad-Eyed And Soft And Grey that begins with:
Sad-Eyed and soft and grey thou art, o morn!
Across the long grass of the marshy plain... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaaaa bccbbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111111111 0101100101 1111000101 1101110101 0101100101 1101011101 01110011101 1111100111 1101111111 01010010011 1111011101 1111011101 0111010111 1111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 311
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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