This is an analysis of the poem Venite Descendamus that begins with:
Let be at last; give over words and sighing,
Vainly were all things said:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd ceceXcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111101110 100111 10110101110 101 10010111010 100101 11011101010 011 10011101110 101111 11010111110 101 10111011110 110101 10111110010 111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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