This is an analysis of the poem After Reading Trollope's History Of Florence that begins with:
My books are on their shelves again
And clouds lie low with mist and rain.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXa Xcddaa eeffgg ffhhff ggiXbX XXjjbb ddaaaa aaXfii iiffee kkccXf aaggee kkfflX Xlaaff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 11110111 01010101 01010101 10010110 01111101 01110100 01111101 0110111 11110111 11011101 11111111 01111001 01111101 11010101 11011111 11010101 01000101 01011101 11010011 11000101 11011101 01010101 01010101 01010111 11010001 10001101 11011100 11100111 11010101 01110100 11110100 0100111 11010001 11010101 10111101 00100101 11110101 11011101 010010101 11010101 11110101 01010101 11011101 010111100 11011001 11010111 11110111 11010101 11000011 11010111 01011101 01010101 111010101 11010101 11110101 11010101 11010100 11011000 11010101 11010101 01011001 11010011 01110101 11011101 01010101 11000101 101010101 100101010 1100101010 11010111 11110101 11001110 01110111 01110111 101100011 11010101 11010111
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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