This is an analysis of the poem Hadrian’s Villa that begins with:

Let us stay here: nor ever more depart
From this sweet wilderness Nature and Art... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccddbbeeffddggbbbhaaiijXeekkeejjddddhheeggkkXgaabbaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 58,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1111110101 0011001011 11111100101 1111011101 111010101110 01010100010 0101110001 0111011101 1001110101 10110000101 1111010111 1101110101 0101010101 1100110111 1111110101 100110010111 1011011111 0101001111 10010111110 11111101110 1101011001 0101010011 1001011101 0101110100 1011010101 11111010111 1101010101 1111001101 10010001010 11110100110 00011010101 10001010101 1111010111 1111100101 0011010101 0101010111 110010111010 110111010110 0111011101 1111010101 1101010111 01110001001 10010111010 01111011010 1100100100111 10110110001 11111100110 01010101010 0111001101 11010111101 0100110100 1011001100 11010011001 1111001101 1101011101 01110111001 1011010001 1011010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2621
  • Average number of words per stanza: 449
  • Amount of lines: 58
  • 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; and, of, these are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word these is repeated.

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