This is an analysis of the poem Bkii:Xviii Vain Riches that begins with:

There’s no ivory, there’s no
gilded panelling, gleaming here in my house,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXb Xcde ffgd hXee XbaX hfXg gdXb gcdf gfgX XgXf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101100101 10100101011 110100 10111010010 1001111 01000101010 0110110 10110101011 1110101 01011111011 1111101 101100111100 1101001 1011110011 1110101 11110100101 1111101 00101111001 0111010 1010010101 1011101 01110010101 100100100 10111010011 01001101010 11111000 10110111110 1111011 11011011 11101101010 1101010 101111110010 0010011 0101110100 100111 01110110100 1100110 01111110110 1101111 11110110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; no, i, and, their, he are repeated.

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