This is an analysis of the poem Vain Words that begins with:
Humble, surely, mine ambition;
It is merely to construct ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaX XbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 0010010 10101010 111110000 10111010 101011101 0011111000 1000000110000
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
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