This is an analysis of the poem The Philosopher, The Young Man, And His Statue that begins with:
A Fond Athenian Mother brought
A Sculptor to indulge her Thought, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaab ccdccd eefeef XfgffgXaabaab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010100101 01000101 110101 10110101 110010111 111101 01010101 01011101 110101 11010111 10110101 010101 01010101 11001101 101101 01111101 1010011001 100101 11010101 10011111 1011001 11011111 11010101 010101 01010001 11010101 110101 11011101 01100101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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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