This is an analysis of the poem The House Of Socrates that begins with:
FOR Socrates a House was built,
Of but inferiour Size; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eeee ffff egeg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010111 011001 11011111 011111 11010101 110011 11011111 110101 11011001 0111010 11010101 110101 01110101 110101 10010101 111111 10110111 110111 11111111 111000
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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