This is an analysis of the poem On Leaving Bruges that begins with:
The city's steeple-towers remove away,
Each singly; as each vain infatuate Faith ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaaccadeffed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 01010100101 11011101011 11010110011 1101111111 0101110111 1010111101 0101111101 1011010001 0111101100 1011110101 0101011011 1011110101 1000010101 1100010011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 621
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; each is repeated.
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