This is an analysis of the poem On The Completion Of A Royal Palace that begins with:
On yonder banks a palace, lo! upshoots,
The tender blue of southern hill behind;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xababa cdcd efef gaXa aXab cXcX egXg dedede hihihX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010110 0101010101 1101010101 0111100101 0101110101 1100010101 0101000111 1101011111 0111100101 1111111111 0101011101 0101010111 0111011101 1100010101 1001010101 01110111001 1111011110 0111110101 1101010101 0101010101 1110011111 1101001101 1000111111 1111110110 1110111101 11110101010 1101100101 111001100111 0111010100 1100110101 1100110101 01011000101 1101111101 1101010101 1101011001 0111010111 1101001101 1101010101 1111110101 1101001101 1111010101 0101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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, here, their, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, their are repeated.
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