This is an analysis of the poem Returning To Brussels that begins with:
Upon a Flemish road, when noon was deep,
I passed a little consecrated shrine, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0101011111 1101010101 1011010101 011010101 0111010111 1111010011 1011100101 1111110101 1101111011 1011010111 1101001101 1111011101 1001011100 1010111011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 653
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; here is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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