This is an analysis of the poem Inscription that begins with:
Come, and where these runnels fall,
Listen to my madrigal!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAbbccddeeffccggXdAA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 1001100 10110101 11010101 0110011 01010101 010100111 11010101 011001001 11010101 01100101 1100101 01100101 1011111 1110101 1010101 11110100 1010101 1111101 1001100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 656
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; from is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word from is repeated.
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