This is an analysis of the poem 'Too oft the poet in elaborate verse' that begins with:
Too oft the poet in elaborate verse,
Flushed with quaint images and gorgeous tropes,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaaabbacdcdee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11010001011 10110011010 1001011011 1011111101 0101010101 0100010001 1111011001 0111011101 1111010111 1111001101 01001111111 0101010101 1111011111 11010100111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 618
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.
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