This is an analysis of the poem The Ruines Of Time that begins with:

It chaunced me on day beside the shore
Of siluer streaming Thamesis to bee,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaXbbbcdcddcc XeXeeee dXXXfXX XeeeedX ababbgh eieXiXX iXijXXX gkgXXjj XXXXXXX ecXccgg fXXXfXX XjajjXX gXXggee abaXbee XeXeeXc lmaXXcc lcaccmm cXcXXXX cbcXbXj XXXcccc XXjXXaa jejXXXX kXkXXee XnXnnaa XeXeej XhchhXX jajXXXX jdjddff bbcXbXb cXcXXee jXjeeXX X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,6,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,8,7,8,7,8,7,8,7,8,7,8,7,7,7,8,7,8,7,8,7,8,7,8,7,15,8,7,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
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  • Amount of stanzas: 97
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 305
  • Average number of words per stanza: 55
  • Amount of lines: 700
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; of, her, i, their, that, and, my, to, his, greatest, him, die, saw, your, brother, deare, dead, thy, in, soone, too, me, with, what, be, for, such, one, but, it, as are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, of, scarse, too, what, ne, or, such, that are repeated.

    The author used the same words he, so, o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines peere is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases fought, wasted, praise, deare, sorrowing connect the lines.

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