This is an analysis of the poem Semele that begins with:
No praise to me!
My joy 'twas to be nothing but the glass... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaccddbdaXeded
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 1110010101 110100101011 010011 1111 11111101101 0111 1111011110101 1101 0110111101 110110 0101000100 0101110111 110101 0101011101 0111001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 552
- Average number of words per stanza: 101
- 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; to is repeated.
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