This is an analysis of the poem Socrates that begins with:
Night is fair Virtue's immemorial friend.
The conscious moon through every distant age... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXbbacacccXbXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10110101001 01011100101 1101010111 1100010101 010100111010 0100010101 1111010111 11001110001 01001010101 1111011101 1101000101 010100101001 1001110011 1101110101 01010101001 1110010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 683
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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