This is an analysis of the poem Nero that begins with:

This Rome, that was the toil of many men,
The consummation of laborious years—...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbXdXeef gbhdfcabgbbi icXXXdecgcjfakk hjlifkdcccdlcccbimnbbbakidXdnidXdjafcn begdedicbgbcbXfgmdbbl
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,12,15,38,21,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0111010101 01010001000 1001010001 11000101001 0111011000 1001010100 01000110001 11000101010 11011101010 1000011000 1101101110 11010101001 0101011001 101010100101 0011011101 0100111101 01001010101 0101010101 0111010101 1001010111 1011111101 11000001101 0101100101 01001110111 11010001010 1001010011 1101001100 0101010111 01010100110 1100011111 1101011101 0111001101 0011010101 01001010101 100100001110 1101011001 1101110101 1110010101 01011100101 0111010100 1111001101 01001010101 1101011101 1101111111 0101110101 1101011111 11110011101 0101111101 0101100100 1011110101 0101101101 1101001011 0100010011 0101110100 1100100101 0101010101 010011101001 0101010101 10011110101 1101011101 0101010001 1111010100 11010010101 1101001111 0101010101 0101010100 110100100100 1111110100 1001110001 01011000111 1101010101 0101000101 0110000101 0101001011 11110100111 11010101001 01011111010 1101010100 0101110101 010010111010 1101010101 1101010100 11000101001 11010001001 0101010100 1011000101 1111010111 0101000101 11111101000 1011110111 0011000101 1111111111 1001011100 10001010101 1101010101 10001100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 793
  • Average number of words per stanza: 140
  • Amount of lines: 96
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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