This is an analysis of the poem At Pompeii that begins with:
At Pompeii I heard a woman laugh,
And turned to find the reason of her mirth;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcdddXeXeefdfcaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110110101 1101010001 1101010001 1100110001 0101000101 0111000101 1011010101 0101000101 110110101 1100010101 1001010111 1001010111 0101111111 1001011111 1101000101 1011010101 110110101 0101011101 0100010110 1100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 805
- Average number of words per stanza: 156
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; and is repeated.
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