This is an analysis of the poem O’er The Wide Earth, On Mountain And On Plain that begins with:

O'ER the wide earth, on mountain and on plain,
Dwells in the affections and the soul of man... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaabbaacacXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 10011110111 10001010101 0111010101 1101000101 1101000101 10100110111 1101111101 0111010111 11011101010 110100100101 01010010010 1101111011 100011100101 0110010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 595
  • Average number of words per stanza: 106
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; and is repeated.

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