This is an analysis of the poem Lines From Endymion that begins with:

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loviliness increases; it will never... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbXXccddeeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 01010001110 010000100010 1001001101 0101011101 10111111010 111100101110 01001011001 10100000101 0101000101 01001011101 1111011001 1101010101 01110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 528
  • Average number of words per stanza: 98
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; of is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.

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