This is an analysis of the poem The Crystal Palace that begins with:

With ganial foire
Thransfuse me loyre,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaab ccXdXX eeXXaX bbbddX bbebXe ffdggd XXhiiX bbbddb bbXjjX bbXddX kkXbke XXldda kkXbbl eeXjjX ddmggm Xbadda bbXbbb XbiXXX bXeXbe kkibbX llXdXX kkXXXX kXbbXb eebkXk eeXbbX hhdhhd bblXbl
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101 1011 1101010 0111 1101 0101110 1101 1101 1101100 11011 1010 0100010 1101 1101 10001110 1101 0101 1111110 1111 11001 1101010 1111 1101 1101010 1101 0101 1101011 0111 10110 1101011 0101 0101 1100110 1011 1101 0111010 010110 01010 0100001 1111 1101 1101010 1111 1101 010110 01001 1101 0100010 0011 0101 0101100 1101 0101 1001100 1111 0110 1101100 0111 1111 0101000 1111 0101 0101010 1101 1101 1111101 0101 1110 1101110 0111 1101 1101110 1101 1101 110010 10001 0101 0101100 1101 1101 110101 1101 0111 110111 1111 0101 0101010 1101 1111 1001010 11100 1101 0101010 1111 1101 1100010 1111 1111 1101110 1111 1101 1100110 1110 1111 1100010 1101 0100 1100010 1111 1101 1100111 1111 1101 1101011 0111 0101 1001010 1101 0111 0001100 1101 0101 0100100 1111 0110 1101011 1101 1001 1101000 100 1110 1000100 1101 1110 1101110 1111 1101 1101110 1101 1101 1101010 1101 1100 1101110 1101 0101 1111100 1101 0101 0110100 1101 0111 1101010 1111 1111 1111100 1111 01001 1101010 1101 1101 0101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 27
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 162
  • Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, there's are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, and, this, saint, there's, of are repeated.

    The author used the same word there's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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