This is an analysis of the poem Durer's 'Melencholia' that begins with:

THE bow of promise, this lost flaring star,
Terror and hope are in mid-heaven; but She, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcaabcaadaXad
  • 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: 0101001101 10111011011 01011101010 11101100101 1011111111 0101011111 1101100100 1111100101 1001010111 1100010101 11010010001 1011110001 0101000111 111100001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 628
  • Average number of words per stanza: 108
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; nor, of are repeated.

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