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

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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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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