This is an analysis of the poem At The Tomb Of Napoleon that begins with:
I stood beside his sepulchre whose fame,
Hurled over Europe once on bolt and blast, ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abXaaccabdebed
- 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: 110101011 1101011111 1111111100 10011101001 1101011101 1101110111 1011110101 1101111111 01001111101 1001010111 1111001101 010010101 01001001101 1111001101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 613
- Average number of words per stanza: 106
- 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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