This is an analysis of the poem To Pius Ix that begins with:
It may be that the stone which thou art heaving
From off thy people's neck shall fall and crush thee;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbabccdebedff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 01010111110 01110111111 01010101111 01011101010 0111011101 1101010111 001000001101 0111010100 1111110001 0011010101 01001001111 10101010100 1001011101 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 623
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- 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; it is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thee is repeated).
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