This is an analysis of the poem A Parsonage In Oxfordshire that begins with:

Where holy ground begins, unhallowed ends,
Is marked by no distinguishable line;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaaccadeeXXd
  • 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: 11010110001 0111010001 0101011001 11000010111 1011011101 1101010101 11001010101 0101011101 01011101110 1101001101 1111010101 1101011101 1101000100 01010011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 608
  • Average number of words per stanza: 96
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

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