This is an analysis of the poem Rome that begins with:
O thou newcomer who seek’st Rome in Rome
And find’st in Rome no thing thou canst call Roman;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba cddc ebeXaba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111011101 11011111110 10111100110 10101011111 0111110101 1111011101 110011001 1011111001 11110111100 1101110101 1001101101 01011111001 1111011101 1111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; rome is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word rome is repeated.
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