Poem Analysis of Tiber, Nile, And Thames by Dante Gabriel Rossetti for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Tiber, Nile, And Thames that begins with:

THE head and hands of murdered Cicero,
Above his seat high in the Forum hung,... full text

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Rhyme scheme: XaabbXabXXcddc
Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
Closest metre: iambic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: limerick
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
Metre: 0111010101 0101100101 1111011101 0011010101 10110010101 0111110110 1011011111 11111010101 11101010111 11011111001 1111110101 01001111111 1101011100 10010101101
Amount of stanzas: 1
Average number of symbols per stanza: 649
Average number of words per stanza: 112
Amount of lines: 14
Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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.

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Tiber, Nile, And Thames by Dante Gabriel Rossetti: poem analysis

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