This is an analysis of the poem A Byzantine Nobleman In Exile Composing Verses that begins with:
The frivolous can call me frivolous.
I've always been most punctilious about...
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcdbXeXXXdaXXXcde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100111100 11101010001 01011101 111110111 01010101010100010 0101101 010111001010010 100001011101 11111101110 100100101001 001101010000111 10111110 0011110001 01010101100 10100100101000 100101110 1101011011 010100010010111001 010101010110010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 815
- Average number of words per stanza: 137
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word whenever is repeated.
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