This is an analysis of the poem On An Old Roundel that begins with:
Death, from thy rigour a voice appealed,
And men still hear what the sweet cry saith,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXab XXX Xbab X cdcD dcXXcdcD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,4,1,4,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101100101 111110111 100101111 1 10100101100 101011101010 0100100100 1001001100 0101001001 011111101 1 1 1001001001110 111011100101 011100111010 1001 11110011101 111101111010 11110100101 111100101010 11011100111 1110111111000 1001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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