This is an analysis of the poem How firm Eternity must look that begins with:
How firm Eternity must look
To crumbling men like me... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010011 0100111 01010001 010100 11000100 11000 01110101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 96
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- idea of the verse;
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