This is an analysis of the poem And Thus In Nineveh that begins with:

Aye! I am a poet and upon my tomb
Shall maidens scatter rose leaves...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcd eXdXfXXbgfbabcd cgXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,15,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101010111 1101011 1110101 110011 101011 11010 1010011 1101001110 1001011101 011111110 0111 110011101 11001101011 110011101 11110001010 1111010111 1111011 10111 0011 00110111110 11101110111 1101011101 110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 254
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word sword at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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