This is an analysis of the poem O, Dwellings Tell Me; Where Your Inhabitants Are Going? that begins with:
And to where their cameleers proceed along or halting?
Yesterday thy place showed sociable deer played joyfully...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaabbccXdeeddffXcgghhccdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111000101110 10111110011100 1010110100100 11010110101 100101010101110 1101100101010 111011110010011 0100111001001000 011010100100100 1101101000101010001 0100111011101001 11000101101000101 101010111010101 010010101010 11101010 1111011001010110 111101001000010 010111101110111001 10101110011011101 101111011010 11100101010100 111011111111101 100110111011001 11111010100101 0010010011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1433
- Average number of words per stanza: 255
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; had, you, i are repeated.
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