This is an analysis of the poem Venice, November, 1966 that begins with:
With his head full of Shakespearean tempests
and old notions of poetic justice,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXb XcbXaX caXXdbd daddX dccXXXddaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,7,5,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00110110010 1110001010 111000100 0101010001 111110010100 110010011001 101011011 001100101101 11110110101 01011111010 10110011 110100010101 011101010101 110011000100 10011010010 10011100101 01011010010 111010111101 01000110011 1111010101 11010100010 1110010011 10101100011 0111001011 0101010001 11010101110 001001100010 1111111110 1010110101 1101000111 1101010101 1111000101 1001000101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 285
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; her is repeated.
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