This is an analysis of the poem Despondency that begins with:
Slow figures in some live remorseless frieze,
The approaching days escapeless and unguessed,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbaabba acacac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1100110101 0010110001100 0111100001 1111000100 1101110101 1011000111 01010100011 111010100 0111001111 1011011111 1011010101 1101011111 1101010001 1110010111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 301
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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