This is an analysis of the poem The Medusa Of The Skies that begins with:
Like a worm-fretted visage from the tomb,
The moon unswathes her hollow, shrunken head,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaaXba cdcede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1011010001 01100010101 1011110101 0101111101 1001010101 11110110000 111110010011 110101111001 1111001101 0101100111 1101111101 11110110001 101111101 0101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 303
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.
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