This is an analysis of the poem Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey that begins with:

Five years have past; five summers, with the length
Of five long winters! and again I hear ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabcddefbgddbfbbhbibjcbffcieekgddldeekmekkciknojfbdedXkefbfeemcddknegbbcccbfedhkfpieeaddpkjbmjefiXbacXeobkkeXddoqdafdkXkdodhfXkidkbcolXkchfbkkbdcldfdabeiqifoebdfh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 162,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1011110001 0111010111 11010011001 0011110101 1101111101 1101010101 1011010101 0110010001 0101110101 1100110111 1101011101 1101001101 1101111101 1111010111 1111011101 01011111001 1001011101 1101000101 0101010111 01010001001 10110111010 010101 1101 1011011001 1001100111 1101011101 0111011100 01001000101 1001110101 11010001101 0101010101 01000010101 11111100100 1111000011 01010100001 0101011111 0011110101 011101111 0101000100 0101010101 0101010001 010101111 01001010111 0101001001 11001001101 1101011101 0101010101 10111101010 01001011001 11000101 00 0101011111 0101010101 0101110101 010001010001 1101010011 1101011101 11011100101 1101110101 1101010101 0101000111 1110010100 0100010101 1111110001 0011010101 1001010111 1100111101 1111011111 1101111101 11010010101 0011010101 0101011101 1001011111 1101111101 0101001101 11110010111 0111011101 1111010100 1011010011 0101011101 1101110101 1101010101 1111001001 1101110100 10000011101 1101011111 11010100110 1111110101 1101111101 0101001111 01110110010 0101110101 0111000100 11110101010 0101011111 0101011001 0101010101 01011101000 1100010101 1011010101 1011100101 01010101101 1101110011 1111111111 0100011101 1101011101 0011010101 0111111101 1101110100 0101010001 0100110101 01010001111 0111010 101 0101111101 1011010001 1110110101 0011011101 1111101111 0100110111 1101000101 0111110101 1101011111 1111010111 1011010001 0111010100 1100001101 0101111101 0110011101 0100110111 0101110101 1101010101 1101110011 0101010101 11001011101 1101111101 0101011101 1110110101 1101010101 0101110100 1111001001 0001010111 1001011101 1100010101 1111110011 0101111111 1011001101 0101110101 1111110101 0110111111 1111011111 0101011101 1101000101 1101011111 0100010101 1000110101 0101101101 01001111101 11010100100 0101111101 10110011001 1111011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 6881
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1238
  • Amount of lines: 162
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; five, of, and, all, my, i, be, or, that are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, in, i, and, of, with are repeated.

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