This is an analysis of the poem Soliloquy In An Ebon Tower that begins with:

The poet speaks, addressing a framed picture of
Baudelaire upon a bookcase:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ab cddXdXeefdX gebdhebibjbiedXfXbkdd XXdeXfXaXdhig bdjXjbXeldg liXklibd iXdddhchfXhfdhbXeg fhlXhXhdXdgXkiddbckX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,11,21,13,11,8,18,20,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 010101001100 10001011 0111000101 10110101110 0111010001 1011010101 01110110010 01110101110 10010001101 1101010111 0101010101 1101101010 1111010 011 0101010111 1101010001 1101011111 0101110101 0101011001 10010100110 1001010101 1101010101 11001001111 1101010100 10001001111 1100010101 1101110101 0001010010 11001011101 1000011110 11010101010 11000101010 1101111111 1001001010 1 1101010111 11010110010 1001011101 110101001000 10010111010 10010100100 0101110101 1101011000 11010100101 0101010101 0101010101 11010010 101 0101011001 1011110111 010100110 11011101010 1111010101 11111111110 01110110011 1100111101 1001000101 0101010001 11011110110 1011111101 010101101010 00110101010 01010100101 10010100101 1101110001 1101010100010 11011111010 01010100110 110010010101 0101000111 110100111010 11111100101 0110011001 010110111 0111010111 0101010100 1100010101 01010100010 1001001001 110110010101 1101110111 1101010100 0101011101 1111001101 11010100101 11111011101 10010101111 10010101100 01011101001 11010101010 111100111 1001010101 0111111100 0101111100 1101010111 1101010100 11011100010 1111010101 1111010101 1101100001 1011011101 1101010101 11111111110 0101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 538
  • Average number of words per stanza: 92
  • Amount of lines: 106
  • 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; has, of, and, where are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.

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

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