This is an analysis of the poem A Precept that begins with:
With words of ivory,
Of bronze, of ebony,....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb XXbb ccaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010100 010100 0101010111 0100010001 110101 0011000 1011110011 0111011101 110101 111101 1101010100 1111010100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
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