This is an analysis of the poem A Grey Day that begins with:
Grey drizzling mists the moorlands drape,
Rain whitens the dead sea, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXXba cbcbddc ececbbe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010111 110011 01010101 111100 11111100 11011101 10010101 01111101 010101 100110101 1100101 10110001 01110101 10010100 11011101 110100 11010101 010101 11010101 11001101 11010111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 229
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 21
- 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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