This is an analysis of the poem Lizard at Pompeii that begins with:
Little finger of fiery green, it
flickers over stone. Waits...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaX bbccXXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010010010 101011 00111 10100 01 1110111101 1011101111 11011101 1111 11011100101 11101101101 001011101100 111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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