This is an analysis of the poem The Chimera that begins with:
O, who will slay the last chimera, Time?
Though Love and Death have many a cunning dart—...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba cXXc dbd ebe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101010101 11111100101 0101111101 110001101 1111111101 0101011101 1101010100 0101111101 1000101011001 0101110100 1101100001 1101010101 1101110101 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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