This is an analysis of the poem The Grave Of The Grammarian Lysias that begins with:
Very close to you, as you enter on the right, in the Beirut
library, we buried the sage Lysias,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabXXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1010111101010001 1101100110 01000101001 111111001101 01010110110 101001010011100 010101001110 111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 392
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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