This is an analysis of the poem Antony's Ending that begins with:
But when he heard the women wailing,
lamenting his sorry state...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXXbdXdXacXdXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101010 0100101 1000101010 1010110001 0100111 0010110001 111101011 0110001 1111100 1110111011 1101111 110010010 11000110 010101 1011011101010 11010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 557
- Average number of words per stanza: 103
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his is repeated.
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