This is an analysis of the poem Not Marble Nor The Gilded Monuments that begins with:

THE praisers of women in their proud and beautiful poems
Naming the grave mouth and the hair and the eyes...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXabcbcddXdefeXegfdfgfbfbcacbcbc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 33,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010010011110010 10011101101 1011110010010 101 011101001010010 01011001111 011011011110010 1101 1110111111110 101110101111 11111011010010 1001 111101111111 110 1111011100101 11111010010110 101011 101111010010 1001001001011 1010101111010110 101011 110110101110010 10011101001 101111010111010 1111 1110110001010010 101101111111 1110011011011011110 101111 10110010100110 1010100111111 10111011110110 1001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1562
  • Average number of words per stanza: 308
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, your, you, to, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, i are repeated.

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  • summary of Not Marble Nor The Gilded Monuments;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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