This is an analysis of the poem China 1899 that begins with:
She lies, a grave disdain all her defence,
Too imperturbable for scorn. She hears ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdeced
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101011001 110001111 1001000100 1101010101 1101010100 1001011111 01101101111 0101010100 1101000101 0001011111 1101110101 00100011001 1101011111 0100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 605
- Average number of words per stanza: 104
- 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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